California’s Invasion of Privacy Act (CIPA) was enacted in 1967 to prevent unlawful wiretapping. Nearly sixty years later it is being used in a new way: to challenge how websites collect and share user data. Today, plaintiffs are filing lawsuits that allege certain online tools such as chat features, search boxes, session replay software or tracking technologies like cookies and pixels, allow companies or their vendors to “intercept” or “eavesdrop on” user interactions without consent….
By: Foster Garvey PC
By: Foster Garvey PC
