Sony Television users who don’t live in California can’t use the state’s privacy laws to sue an analytics company for conduct that occurs outside the state’s jurisdiction, a federal judge said as she dismissed a proposed class action.
Plaintiffs in North Carolina and Oklahoma alleged California-based Samba TV Inc.'s chips installed in their Sony TVs intercepted their private video-viewing data in real time without their consent, filing suit in the US District Court for the Northern District of California. The chips also collected their unique identifiers, including IP addresses, they said.
But the Comprehensive Computer Data Access and Fraud Act ...
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