Converse Beats Wiretap Suit Over Salesforce Chat Function (1)

A lower court properly dismissed a consumer’s proposed class action alleging that Converse Inc. allowed Salesforce Inc. to wiretap the chat communications of visitors to the footwear company’s website, the Ninth Circuit said Wednesday.

Lead plaintiff Nora Gutierrez failed to show that Salesforce violated any provisions of the California Invasion of Privacy Act, which undercut her claim that Converse violated the statute’s “aiding and abetting” clause, the court said, affirming the lower court’s summary judgment ruling for Converse. Salesforce wasn’t named as a defendant.

Gutierrez alleged that Converse aided and abetted violations of two clauses of the CIPA ...