Consumer’s Session Replay Class Action Against Lenovo Advances

Lenovo United States Inc. must face a proposed class action alleging it installed code on its website that allowed a third-party to record user activities in violation of the California Invasion of Privacy Act.

Plaintiff Ophelia Augustine provided sufficient foundation at the pleading stage for her claim that Lenovo intercepted her communications without her consent, and that the third-party provider of the code, Quantum Metric Inc., took an independent role in the interception, Judge M. James Lorenz of the US District Court for the Southern District of California said Wednesday in rejecting Lenovo’s bid for dismissal of the lawsuit.

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