Campbell et al v. Facebook Inc.
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EXHIBITS re 179 Notice (Other),,, Exhibits to Joint Notice of Refiling of Documents Accompanying Class Certification Briefs and Evidentiary Objections filed byFacebook Inc.. (Attachments: # 1 Exhibit 26 (Unredacted), # 2 Exhibit 27 (Redacted), # 3 Exhibit 28 (Redacted), # 4 Exhibit 29 (Unredacted), # 5 Exhibit 30 (Redacted), # 6 Exhibit 31 (Redacted), # 7 Exhibit 32 (Redacted), # 8 Exhibit 33 (Unredacted), # 9 Exhibit 34 (Redacted), # 10 Exhibit 35 (Unredacted), # 11 Exhibit 36 (Unredacted), # 12 Exhibit 37 (Redacted), # 13 Exhibit 38 (Unredacted), # 14 Exhibit 39 (Unredacted), # 15 Exhibit 40 (Unredacted), # 16 Exhibit 41 (Unredacted), # 17 Exhibit 42 (Redacted), # 18 Exhibit 43 (Redacted), # 19 Exhibit 44 (Redacted), # 20 Exhibit 45 (Redacted), # 21 Exhibit 46 (Redacted), # 22 Exhibit 47 (Redacted), # 23 Exhibit 48 (Redacted), # 24 Exhibit 49 (Unredacted), # 25 Exhibit 50 (Unredacted))(Related document(s) 179 ) (Chorba, Christopher) (Filed on 3/28/2016)
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UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT
NORTHERN DISTRICT OF CALIFORNIA
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OAKLAND DIVISION
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MATTHEW CAMPBELL, MICHAEL HURLEY, )
and DAVID SHADPOUR,
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Plaintiffs,
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) Case No.
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FACEBOOK, INC.,
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Defendant.
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VIDEOTAPED DEPOSITION OF MATTHEW D. CAMPBELL
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San Francisco, California
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May 19, 2015
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Volume I
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Reported by:
CARLA SOARES
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CSR No. 5908
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Job No. 2067810
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teleconference last week, when was the last time you
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spoke with any of your attorneys in that case?
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09:11:43
I've been in contact with Mr. Slade
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roughly once a month for the last -- well, since the
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suit was filed; more frequently than that over the
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last month or so as we've prepared for this and
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through discovery.
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session.
Okay.
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And let's focus on yesterday's prep
Approximately how long did that meeting
last?
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Five hours.
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Did you discuss your deposition today with
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Somewhere in that ballpark.
anyone other than your attorneys and/or their staff?
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Not substantively, no.
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Put aside substantively.
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Did you
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discuss -A
Well, I told my wife that I was coming to
San Francisco for a deposition.
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Okay.
Anybody else?
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No.
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Did you review any documents in preparing
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for this deposition, either at the prep meeting last
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week or your meeting yesterday?
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Yes.
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Did your review of any documents refresh
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I do.
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What is it?
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These are the corrected objections and
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responses to the interrogatories that were directed
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to me.
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And did you review these responses before
they were provided to Facebook?
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I did.
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Did you make corrections?
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Nothing specific that I can think of.
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reviewed them and discussed with my attorneys.
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And did you take care to make sure the
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responses were accurate to the best of your
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recollection?
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Yes.
Yes, I did.
I'm just trying to
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think if there was anything beyond that.
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And, Mr. Campbell, if you could look at
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Interrogatory No. 1, and specifically your response
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which is found on page 3 of the document, I'll just
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read the second-to-last sentence.
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account" -- with Facebook -- "was established on
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January 7th, 2009."
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"Plaintiff's
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Is that your best recollection as to when
you signed up for Facebook?
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Yes.
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Have you ever traveled internationally?
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I've been to -- well, let me answer your
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question.
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Yes.
I don't need to probe your international
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travel habits, fortunately, unless you're claiming
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to represent an international class.
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have another depo.
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Then we'll
So, Mr. Campbell, do you have an
understanding of what your duties and obligations
would be as a class representative in this case?
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Yes.
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What are they?
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To act in the best interest of the class,
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observe my fiduciary duty to the rest of the class,
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work with counsel, again, in the best interest of
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the class as far as any decisions, any decisions on
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pleadings or the content of pleadings, et cetera.
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And what do you mean by "decisions on
pleadings"?
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What role in that respect?
Reviewing the complaint before it was
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filed, reviewing interrogatory responses, providing
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documents to counsel for purposes of discovery.
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Do you know what class you're seeking to
represent in this case?
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To my understanding, it is the subset of
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identification and are attached hereto.)
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BY MR. CHORBA:
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Mr. Campbell, the reporter has handed you
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two documents.
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Exhibits 9 and 10.
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We've marked them in sequence
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Exhibit 9 is a document captioned "Class
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Action Complaint."
It's file-stamped at the top
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December 30, 2013.
I'll represent to you that's
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your original complaint against Facebook in this
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action.
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Exhibit 10 is filed April 25th, 2014,
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titled "Consolidated Amended Class Action
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Complaint."
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Let's start with Exhibit No. 9.
Do you
recognize this document?
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Yes.
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Is this your original complaint against
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Facebook in this action?
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Yes.
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And you reviewed this document before it
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was filed?
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Yes.
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Did you -- do you recall whether or not,
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yes or no, you made any changes to this before it
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was filed?
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That was a decision by one of the
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attorneys involved or all of the attorneys involved.
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Did you review the initial disclosures
served on behalf of the plaintiffs in this case?
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Yes.
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Did you review the supplemental initial
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disclosures?
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Yes.
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Did you review the responses served on
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your behalf to Facebook's interrogatories?
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Yes.
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12:17:39
And did you review a set of corrected
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responses to Facebook's interrogatories?
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Yes.
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How about the document requests, responses
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to the document requests?
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Did you review those
before they were filed?
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Yes.
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Did you sign any of these documents?
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I don't recall one way or the other.
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Do you remember reviewing all these
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responses for accuracy?
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Yes.
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Did you make every effort to make sure
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they were correct?
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Partly.
I'm referring to any of the
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actions that qualify as a breach of my privacy.
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It's not necessarily limited to just the instances
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where the "Like" count increased.
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Okay.
Then I'm confused.
What other
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breaches of your privacy other than the conduct I
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thought we were talking about, which is the
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transmission of a URL through a private message?
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That's distinct from the increased "Like"
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count.
I understood your previous question to be
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limiting my harms to only when the "Like" count
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increased.
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that precise.
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Okay.
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Let me maybe restart.
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Fair enough.
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I wasn't intending to be
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I asked you if you've suffered any harm
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from your continued use of Facebook.
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because you understand that conduct had ceased.
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You said no
By "that conduct" in that response, you're
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referring to the transmission of the URL through a
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message?
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I'm referring to Facebook's interception
of a URL sent in the message, yes.
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An interception for the purpose of
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increasing the "Like" count on that page?
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No, the interception itself is the breach
of privacy.
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And do you believe that Facebook is
continuing to intercept URLs through messages?
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My understanding is that they are not, at
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least not in the -- my understanding is that they're
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not continuing the same behavior, which is why I've
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continued to use the messaging service.
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What's the -- when you say "same
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behavior," I'm just trying to understand.
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the specific behavior you're talking about?
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What is
The interception -- the access of the
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content of the messages and the related interception
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of any URLs that are contained therein.
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In a way that increases the "Like" count
of that URL?
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No.
Again, that's a separate issue
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whether there's an increase.
I'm saying from the
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moment when I hit "Send," my understanding is that
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Facebook is no longer intercepting that URL in any
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form, regardless of whether Facebook is still going
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and increasing the "Like" count officially as a
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result.
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We discussed earlier how -- and you
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before I hit "Send."
I assume that until I hit
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"Send," Facebook isn't doing anything with it.
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Not even rendering a URL preview?
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Obviously I don't assume that they don't
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do that since we've discussed it.
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I know that they
do that.
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So they're doing something.
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Again, my understanding was that was just
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a function of the software.
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something that the user could choose to include or
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not include.
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It was -- and it was
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On what basis do you base your testimony
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that there were no more interceptions of messages
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containing URLs after October 2012?
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It's my understanding that's what Facebook
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Where?
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I believe it was discussed in The Wall
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said.
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Street Journal article.
If not, it might have been
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information or assurances I received maybe from
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somebody else.
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Journal article.
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Facebook had already said, "We're not doing that
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anymore."
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I assumed it was in The Wall Street
That was my understanding, is that
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And by "doing that," do you mean just
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intercepting generally or incrementing the "Like"
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count through URLs shared over private message?
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Both.
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Have you done anything to verify whether
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or not Facebook is continuing to engage in the
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conduct that you challenge in the complaint?
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MR. CARNEY:
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THE WITNESS:
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Object to form.
No.
I assume that -- no.
BY MR. CHORBA:
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Mr. Campbell, do you have any information
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or any basis of any kind that Facebook has targeted
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an ad to you based on something that you put in a
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message on Facebook?
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That Facebook itself has targeted an ad to
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Yes.
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Online ads or --
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Any type of advertising.
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As I testified earlier, I don't see ads on
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me?
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pretty much any website.
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that.
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So, no, I haven't seen
You mentioned that some websites, they
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sometimes sneak through.
In those instances -- I'm
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trying to figure out if you have any basis for
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the actual messages downloaded.
But if you could
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just look quickly at those pages, make sure I have
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the stack correctly.
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Yes.
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And again, I know that we're carving out
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the Blue Hog Report page and the Pinnacle page, but
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are these all of the Facebook messages that you've
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sent, or are these just the ones containing URLs?
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They appear to be just the ones containing
URLs.
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But again, that wasn't something you
culled from the full list; someone else did that?
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Correct.
I provided all of them to
counsel.
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Is it your claim in this case that
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Facebook unlawfully scanned or intercepted all of
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these messages or just some?
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All of them that fall within the time
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frame up to the date where Facebook stopped scanning
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and intercepting the messages.
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So that October 2012 time frame?
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Somewhere in there.
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And do you know the information that's
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blocked out here or redacted?
MR. CARNEY:
Object to form.
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I, the undersigned, a Certified Shorthand
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Reporter of the State of California, do hereby
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certify:
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That the foregoing proceedings were taken
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before me at the time and place herein set forth;
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that any witnesses in the foregoing proceedings,
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prior to testifying, were administered an oath; that
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a record of the proceedings was made by me using
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machine shorthand which was thereafter transcribed
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under my direction; that the foregoing transcript is
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a true record of the testimony given.
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Further, that if the foregoing pertains to
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the original transcript of a deposition in a Federal
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Case, before completion of the proceedings, review
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of the transcript [X] was [ ] was not requested.
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I further certify I am neither financially
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interested in the action nor a relative or employee
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of any attorney or any party to this action.
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IN WITNESS WHEREOF, I have this date
subscribed my name.
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Dated: 05/29/2015
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