Amazon.com is not liable under the federal Computer Fraud and Abuse Act for transferring cookies to website visitors’ computer hard drives because the visitors suffered no discernible harm from the transfer and whatever gain Amazon yielded did not change that, the U.S. District Court for the Western District of Washington held June 1 (Del Vecchio v. Amazon.com Inc., W.D. Wash., 2:11-cv-00366-RSL, 6/1/12).
The court rejected the idea that a showing that Amazon profited from the cookies transfer somehow equated to a loss to the plaintiffs. It dismissed the plaintiffs’ claim with prejudice in light of their repeated ...
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