( November 2, 2023, 4:24 PM EDT) -- SEATTLE — Affirming the dismissal of a putative privacy claim against Ford Motor Co., a Ninth Circuit U.S. Court of Appeals panel found that the plaintiffs did not sufficiently plead an injury under the Washington Privacy Act (WPA) from the purported collection and retention of text messages in vehicles’ on-board memory because they did not claim that the automaker ever accessed the retained messages....