Salesforce, Hanna Andersson Suit Adds California Privacy Claims

Salesforce.com Inc. and Hanna Andersson LLC should face claims that seek statutory damages under the California Consumer Privacy Act, according to an amended complaint filed in a Northern California federal court.

The complaint may lead to large damages because plaintiffs can seek up to $750 per consumer, per incident under the privacy law. The statute’s right-to-sue provision has not been tested, but the Illinois Biometric Information Privacy Act’s damages section helped produce a $550 million Facebook Inc. settlement announced in January.

The amended complaint filed Thursday in the U.S. District Court for the Northern District of California follows earlier claims ...