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Claims that Facebook and Zynga violated federal wiretap laws were dismissed by a U.S. appeals court today. Back in 2010, Facebook and Zynga users filed separate class action lawsuits against the companies, claiming that their Facebook profile information was illegally broadcast to third parties and advertisers when they clicked on a Facebook ad or Zynga game. According to the appeals court, this doesnt violate the federal wiretap law the lawsuits were filed under. Section 2702(c)(6) [of the Stored Communications Act] permits an electronic communications service or remote computing service to “divulge a record or other information pertaining to a subscriber to or customer of such service (not including the contents of communications covered by [§ 2702](a)(1) or (a)(2)) .