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 ...
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