A class action lawsuit against Burger King for data privacy violations could be headed to trial. Burger King was sued for a faulty consent banner on its website, with plaintiffs alleging that the fast-food giant continued to track user activity and private communications even after their clear rejection of cookies and other tracking technologies.
The Electronic Communications Privacy Act (ECPA) is a federal law enacted in the mid-1980s just as cell phones, the internet, and other digital technologies were becoming prevalent throughout the United States. Many Americans began to use email, prompting lawmakers to put stringent privacy protections in place for those types of communications. Today, data privacy concerns remain a major concern in industries where customer records shared online typically involve sensitive material, including the financial and healthcare industries.
The explosion of e-commerce websites, internet marketing, and AI technology has raised serious concerns about the privacy of consumers online. Increasingly, courts in California and elsewhere are relying on the Federal Wiretap Act to ensure that consumers’ sensitive personal information remains confidential. What is the Federal Wiretap Act? The federal data privacy law broadly protects consumer data by placing clear limits on how the government and private businesses can go about collecting information about website visitors.
LiveRamp, one of the largest data brokers in the world, was sued for invading the privacy of consumers – and now a federal court has ruled that the case can move forward. The invasion of privacy lawsuit against LiveRamp, Riganian v. LiveRamp Holdings, Inc., was filed as a class action in the U.S. District Court for the California Northern District. The plaintiffs are California consumers who accused LiveRamp of unlawfully collecting consumer information both online and offline and then selling that information to third parties for marketing purposes.
A federal court in California recently issued a key ruling in an important, potentially precedent-setting case, and court observers and legal experts are now asking: Did Rack Room Shoes violate federal wiretap law? The pre-trial ruling, issued by the U.S. District Court for the California Northern District, might have implications for the future of consumer privacy laws nationwide. The case, Smith v.
A California court recently ruled that a trap & trace CIPA claim against Peachybbies can proceed. The Plaintiff, a California consumer, alleged that Peachybbies violated the California Invasion of Privacy Act (CIPA) by installing TikTok Software on its website to track and intercept the personal information of website visitors without their consent. This data was then allegedly shared with TikTok, the Chinese-owned social media platform.
A federal court in California recently ruled on a trap and trace class action against HoMedics and FKA Distributing Co. – and the ruling was fantastic news for the consumer protection attorneys at Tauler Smith LLP. The plaintiff in the case is a California resident who visited the HoMedics website. According to the legal complaint, the website utilized TikTok software to unlawfully collect personal information from the plaintiff and other consumers who visited the site.
A number of recent lawsuits have been filed based on something known as “the pen register theory.” But what are pen registers? One of the surveillance tools commonly used by law enforcement to spy on suspects is the pen register, which allows police to capture phone numbers that were dialed on outgoing calls. Increasingly, these devices are being used by businesses to reveal the content of communications on websites, which poses a very real privacy concern for consumers.
Invasion of privacy has become a major concern for consumers who frequent websites and make purchases online. That’s because many companies are now using pen registers and trap devices, which may include website cookies, web beacons, script, software code, and other types of software to track user data. While both federal and California law provide strong protections for consumers in these situations, pen registers vs. trap and trace devices is still a distinction that needs to be understood before speaking to a consumer fraud lawyer.
Los Angeles law firm Tauler Smith LLP recently filed a trap and trace class action against United HealthCare. The national health insurance provider has been accused of collaborating with controversial social media company TikTok to unlawfully collect data from website visitors. These actions would constitute clear violations of the California Invasion of Privacy Act (CIPA), which prohibits companies from using website tracking software to gather personal information about customers.