Burger King Owner Stuck With Narrowed False Cookie Banner Suit

Burger King’s corporate parent, Restaurant Brands International Inc., remains stuck with much of a California resident’s proposed federal false cookie banner class action.

Plaintiff Daniel Pemberton claims the fast food purveyor’s offer to reject its website’s cookies, which he accepted, didn’t stop it from tracking him online. He said he wouldn’t have used the Burger King website had he known he was still being tracked.

His invasion of privacy, intrusion upon seclusion, fraud, and unjust enrichment claims survived Restaurant Brands’ bid for dismissal at the US District Court for the Northern District of California Monday. Judge Jacqueline Scott Corley in ...