Meta Asks Judge to Maintain 10 Redactions in FTC’s Amended Complaint

U.S. District Judge Edward Davila for Northern California in San Jose should “maintain under seal” 10 portions of the FTC’s amended complaint to block Meta’s Within Unlimited buy to protect sensitive business information, said Meta in a statement of support Thursday (docket 5:22-cv-04325) for keeping the redactions. Meta’s proposal “significantly narrows the information that would be maintained under seal,” it said. The proposed redactions “reflect Meta’s good-faith effort to seek sealing of only that information which is competitively sensitive, contained in internal documents only, and cannot be protected from public disclosure through any more restrictive means,” it said. They involve statements of “internal strategy” and quotations on purchase pricing in “prior non-public acquisitions,” plus financial data “not required to be publicly disclosed,” it said.