Topic
Website Tracking
107 published works
Privacy + Cyber + AI
The Northern District of California Calls on the California Legislature to Fix CIPA
By Angelo A. Stio III, David Navetta, Robert Jenkin
KEYPOINT- The N.D.Cal. shared its frustration with the language of CIPA, the conflicting rulings on how it has been applied, and the need for the legislature to fix it, as…
Ogletree Deakins Insights
Website Tracker Litigation Continues to Pose Compliance Headache: Updates on CIPA and Related Litigation
Quick Hits Litigation remains steady and costly. Hundreds of lawsuits and arbitration demands continue to allege that website-tracking technologies—such as pixels, analytics tools, and chat features—violate the California Invasion of…
Data Privacy + Cybersecurity Insider
California Federal Court Clarifies CIPA’s Reach Over Website Tracking in Mashable Hearing
By Roma Patel, Kathryn Rattigan
On October 9, 2025, the Northern District of California denied Mashable, Inc.’s motion to dismiss a class action alleging violations of the California Invasion of Privacy Act (CIPA). Mashable operates…
Inside Class Actions
Illinois Court Narrows Lawsuit Over Medical Center’s Use of Pixel Technology and Strikes Class Claims
In a recent decision by the United States District Court for the Northern District of Illinois, Judge Georgia N. Alexakis narrowed and struck class claims alleging that the University of…
Data Privacy + Cybersecurity Insider
Condé Nast Faces Setback in California Web Tracking Class Action
A California federal court has refused to dismiss a class action lawsuit alleging that Condé Nast unlawfully installed online trackers on its websites, signaling yet another instance of courts applying…
Global Policy Watch
Court Clarifies Federal Wiretap Act’s Crime-Tort Exception: “Commercial Purposes” Are “Not the Stuff of Which a Crime-Tort Is Made”
By Austin Riddick, Matthew Verdin
After last year’s landmark ruling holding that the Massachusetts Wiretap Act does not prohibit businesses’ use of pixels to capture website browsing data, Massachusetts plaintiffs have shifted their focus to…
Byte Back
U.S. Privacy Litigation Update: June 2025 Decisions
By Former Attorney Dustin Taylor, Owen Davis
In this post: (1) Website tracking litigation risk remains as SB 690 is designated “two-year bill”; (2) Second Circuit reinforces narrower interpretation of PII to “shut the door for Pixel-based…
Password Protected
Emerging Defense in CIPA Lawsuits: Potent Yet Constrained by Legal and Technical Limitations
By Alicia A. Baiardo, Payam Khodadadi, Andrew Konia, Christian Hochhausler
On June 3, 2025, the California Senate unanimously voted to amend the California Invasion of Privacy Act (“CIPA”) to exclude cookies and other commonly used internet tracking technologies from CIPA…
Inside Privacy
Home Pregnancy Test Company Wins Dismissal of Pixel Wiretapping Suit
Health-related websites are increasingly targeted with wiretapping suits if they use pixels or other third-party technologies to power their websites. A few months ago, a California court dismissed on multiple…
Inside Class Actions
Home Pregnancy Test Company Wins Dismissal of Pixel Wiretapping Suit
Health-related websites are increasingly targeted with wiretapping suits if they use pixels or other third-party technologies to power their websites. A few months ago, a California court dismissed on multiple…