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Comment: As Facebook app developer suit approaches eight-year mark, allegations fly over special master

By Mike Swift ( November 29, 2022, 23:26 GMT | Comment) -- Nearly eight years after Ted Kramer's software startup, Six4Three, sued Facebook after its bikini-search app lost access to "friend" data, Meta Platforms and the now defunct startup that is a footnote in the Cambridge Analytica privacy scandal continue to battle in court. A current skirmish over who pays a court-appointed special master is about obstructing the case, according to Meta, while Six4Three says the social media giant is trying to trap the "years-dead company" into a costly catch-22.Ted Kramer poked the bear. Four years later, the bear — a.k.a. Meta Platforms — is still pawing at Kramer’s back....

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