Dollar Tree failed to shake off California privacy and pen register claims stemming from allegations the discount variety store company didn’t maintain a functional cookie banner.
The proposed class action said Dollar Tree failed to remove advertising cookies even if website visitors used the cookie banner to ask the company to remove those codes, according to the Thursday order from the US District Court for the Northern District of California.
“Dollar Tree itself creates a reasonable expectation of privacy when it presents customers with a Cookie Banner permitting them to” reject advertising cookies, and breaking that promise by collecting data ...
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