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Tech your username 6 hours ago After reviving a lawsuit against social media company Snap Inc. over its speed filter, which was dismissed in 2020 in the Northern District of California, the Ninth Circuit issued an opinion on Tuesday reversing the district court’s dismissal and remanding the matter for further proceedings.  The appellate panel consisting of Circuit Judges Kim McLane Wardlaw and Carlos T. Bea as well as District Judge James David Cain, Jr. found that Snap Inc., the parent comp...

(CN) — Just before their car drove off a Wisconsin road at 113 mph, crashed into a tree and burst into flames in May 2017, one of the teenaged passengers took a Snapchat video with a filter that records how fast the user is traveling. Before that, driver Jason Davis, 17, and his friends Hunter Morby, 17, and Landen Brown, 20, of Walworth County, Wisconsin, reached speeds of up to 123 mph. In her 18-page opinion, U.S. Circuit Judge Kim McClane Wardlaw recounted the final moments of the young m...

Snapchat Can Be Sued Over Role In Fatal Car Crash, Court Rules By Bobby Allyn  May 4, 2021 Three young men got into a car in Walworth County, Wis., in May 2017. They were set on driving at rapid speeds down a long, cornfield-lined road — and sharing their escapade on social media. As the 17-year-old behind the wheel accelerated to 123 miles per hour, one of the passengers opened Snapchat. His parents say their son wanted to capture the experience using an app feature — the controversial �...

Federal Appeals Court: Section 230 Doesn’t Protect Snapchat from Lawsuit Alleging Its ‘Speed Filter’ Caused Fatal Car Crash Jerry Lambe © Provided by Law & Crime screenshot of driver going 90 mph as shown through snapchat speed filter. A federal appeals court on Tuesday ruled that Section 230 of the Communications Decency Act does not immunize Snapchat from a lawsuit claiming that its “Speed Filter” contributed to the deaths of two boys who died in a car crash while...

Skip to main content After 3 kids died in car crash while using Snapchat, court says family members can sue company FacebookTwitterEmail The Snapchat app — The Ninth U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals in San Francisco put a dent in the armor of internet service companies provided by the Communications Decency Act, which protects them from liability for content from others on their websites. The court said Snap was not being sued for content but for a product application.Dreamstime / TNS Three youn...

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