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Lawsuit against Snapchat Dismissed
A judge in the U.S. state of Georgia has dismissed a lawsuit against Snapchat Inc. (also known as Snap, Inc.) regarding its eponymous photo- and video-sharing app. The plaintiffs, who were injured in a two-car crash, claimed that the driver of the other car, in the words of CBS News, [cbsnews.com]
[...] was trying to reach 100 mph on a highway south of Atlanta when her car hit theirs [...]
[...] while [she was] using a Snapchat filter that puts the rate at which a vehicle is traveling over an image.
The judge cited (Wikipedia link added by submitter)
[...] the immunity clause of the 1996 Communications Decency Act [wikipedia.org], which says, “No provider or user of an interactive computer service shall be treated as the publisher or speaker of any information provided by another information content provider.”
As reported by WGCL-TV [cbs46.com], a CBS affiliate in Atlanta, a motion filed by the company (PDF) [worldnow.com] asserted that the driver whose car collided with the plaintiffs' car "was not using the Snapchat application at the time of the collision" (quoted from the court filing, with emphasis removed).
additional coverage:
- CBS Local Media [cbslocal.com]
- Associated Press via WYFF-TV [wyff4.com]
- Associated Press via Insurance Journal [insurancejournal.com] (different AP story)
- WHJL-TV and Associated Press [wjhl.com]
related stories:
The Company Formerly Known as Snapchat may be Worth $25 Billion [soylentnews.org]
Goodbye Snapchat, Hello Snap Inc [soylentnews.org]
