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Plaintiffs' filingSeptember 29, 2026Kadrey v. Meta Platforms, Inc. · N.D. Cal. 3:23-cv-03417

Plaintiffs say Meta's internal data catalog shows it kept torrenting from Anna's Archive after mid-2024

In a joint discovery letter to Magistrate Judge Hixson, the authors ask the court to review in private, and overrule, Meta's attorney-client privilege redactions in pages from its internal AI Data Catalog. They say Meta has now produced several hundred catalog pages, including pages for Anna's Archive and other pirate sites, and that the documents show Meta "continued to torrent (and distribute)" from Anna's Archive after the updates the court reviewed earlier. They also say the catalog was open to thousands of employees, which they argue defeats the privilege. Meta responds that the catalog pages are governed by access controls, that the redactions cover legal advice from its in-house lawyers, and that the final approval status is already unredacted. These are the plaintiffs' claims and Meta's response in a discovery dispute; the exhibits are not public and the court has not ruled.

Joint Discovery Letter Brief re: AIDC Redactions, Dkt. 847 (Sept. 29, 2026) ↗

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