Condé Nast Digital failed to convince a federal court to dismiss a proposed California Invasion of Privacy Act class action arising from the alleged improper use of third party online trackers.
Aaron Deivaprakash, a reader of the New Yorker and Wired, said that Condé Nast used trackers from Google, Audiencerate, and TransUnion units, and the publisher benefits from the information those programs gather on users for the sake of targeted advertising, according to documents filed with the US District Court for the Northern District of California.
- The plaintiff sufficiently claimed the online trackers were pen registers— in part because they ...