TechRadar.com Sued For Collecting Website Visitors’ IP Addresses

Magazine and website publisher Future US LLC collected the IP addresses of visitors to its TechRadar.com website without their consent in violation of the California Invasion of Privacy Act, a proposed federal class action said.

Digvijay Motiani alleged that Future installed tracking code on TechRadar.com to capture visitors’ “routing, addressing, or signaling information,” rendering the code a “pen register” as defined by the CIPA.

The statute prohibits the installation and use of a pen register without users’ consent and without a court order, according to a complaint filed Thursday in the US District Court for the Southern District of New ...