Facebook Tracking Litigation News Today : Breaking News, Live Updates & Top Stories | Vimarsana

To print this article, all you need is to be registered or login on Mondaq.com. The latest wrinkle in the ever-changing world of data privacy litigation is the recent surge in state wiretap claims. What began as a trickle over the summer of 2020 has grown into a clear wave as plaintiffs have filed dozens of lawsuits against prominent tech, eCommerce, entertainment, and retail companies under state wiretap laws.  These lawsuits seek statutory damages for the alleged interception of consumers' electronic communications through the defendant's use of various website anal...

The landscape shifted significant in the summer of 2020 with the Ninth Circuit’s decision in the In re Facebook Internet Tracking Litigation.  That case involved Facebook’s collection of users’ search requests on third-party websites that had the Facebook Like button embedded on the website.  Facebook collected this information by having its plug-in direct users’ browsers to send duplicate “GET requests”—which contain the users’ personally-identifiable URL information—to both the third-party website and Facebook.  Plaintiff alleged that consumers were not aware that Face...