Nvidia Wins Bid to Force Arbitration in Cookie Banner Suit

Nvidia Corp. can require a California resident to arbitrate his claims in a proposed privacy class suit that its website’s cookie banner failed to honor his preference not to be tracked.

The tech giant sufficiently showed that plaintiff Stacy Penning had actual notice he agreed to arbitration, the US District Court for the Northern District of California said Thursday. All of his claims—including under the California Invasion of Privacy Act and common law—are stayed pending the result of arbitration.

Penning had to have seen a cookie banner that linked to Nvidia’s terms of service, and by clicking on the ...