CuriosityStream Wins Dismissal of TikTok Trap and Trace Suit

CuriosityStream Inc. shed a proposed class action alleging that it installed a TikTok tracking tool on its website in violation of the California Invasion of Privacy Act—or “Trap and Trace Law.”

Plaintiff Christopher Mitchener’s claims fail for two main reasons: He lacks Article III standing because if CuriosityStream only collects information consisting of metadata, there’s no expectation of privacy for that type of data; and if the software instead collects information from communication between parties, the tracking tool isn’t a trap and trace device under the CIPA, which by definition, captures information about a communication, said Judge Noël Wise of ...