California Invasion of Privacy Act

May 9, 2024 A class action accuses Crumbl of helping a third-party online payment processor capture website visitors’ data without their knowledge or consent.

May 7, 2024 A proposed class action accuses Delta Air Lines of secretly sharing website visitors’ private data with Facebook without their knowledge or consent.

May 6, 2024 A class action claims Quantum Metric has illegally “wiretapped” the electronic communications of CVS.com visitors without their knowledge or consent.

April 30, 2024 A class action accuses Banner Health of illegally sharing website visitors’ data with third parties, including Facebook and Google, without consent.

April 25, 2024 CNN faces a class action lawsuit that alleges CNN.com is equipped with several web trackers that secretly collect Calif. visitors’ IP addresses.

April 12, 2024 A class action lawsuit alleges Buzzfeed has violated a Calif. privacy law by utilizing at least three different web trackers to collect visitors’ IP addresses.

April 8, 2024 A class action alleges Reuters News & Media Inc. has incorporated trackers onto its website to collect visitors’ IP addresses without consent.

April 3, 2024 A class action alleges the Los Angeles Times has used online tracking tools to secretly collect website visitors’ IP addresses since at least February 2023.

April 3, 2024 A class action alleges Mattress Firm uses a third-party service to “eavesdrop upon and record” the conversations of those who call its customer service line.

April 1, 2024 A lawsuit alleges American Express has shared with Facebook the communications of Calif. consumers who applied for a credit card on AmEx’s website and were rejected.

March 26, 2024 A lawsuit claims Charlotte’s Web has eavesdropped on website visitors via secret chatbot code that allows the company to record transcripts of conversations without consent.

March 15, 2024 A proposed class action lawsuit alleges USNews.com uses web-tracking software to capture visitors’ personal information without consent.

March 6, 2024 A proposed class action claims BusinessInsider.com unlawfully uses web-tracking technology to collect visitors’ personal data without consent.

March 5, 2024 A class action alleges Walgreens illegally records inbound calls made to its customer service number without consumers’ knowledge or consent.

February 28, 2024 A lawsuit alleges Western Union and MoneyGram have illegally swept up and disclosed to a law enforcement education group the transaction data of millions consumers from certain states.

February 26, 2024 A consumer claims in a class action that Home Depot allowed his customer service calls to be secretly “wiretapped” by Google without his consent.

February 22, 2024 A class action alleges LinkedIn unlawfully tracks and collects information about users as they navigate certain parts of the California DMV’s website.

February 13, 2024 A class action claims San Diego Fertility Center Medical Group and Ivy Fertility have secretly disclosed website visitors’ private data to third parties without consent.

January 17, 2024 A class action accuses Policygenius of secretly sharing website visitors’ personal and health information with third parties without consent.

January 11, 2024 A class action alleges consumers who browse AdamEve.com have had details of their sexual preferences, sexual orientation, sex toy preferences and more shared with Google without their consent.

January 3, 2024 A class action alleges Zappos.com has illegally used “spyware” to surveil website visitors’ browsing habits without their knowledge or consent.

December 8, 2023 Scripps Health faces a class action over its alleged disclosure of website visitors’ private information to third parties, including Facebook and Google, without consent.

November 20, 2023 A class action accuses AltaMed Health Services Corporation of sharing the private health data of website visitors with third parties, including Facebook, without consent.

November 16, 2023 A class action claims Blue Cross Blue Shield Association secretly transmits federal employees’ private medical data to TikTok, Facebook and other third parties without consent.

November 2, 2023 A class action alleges Google’s Cloud Contact Center AI software has recorded, accessed, read and learned the contents of customer service calls without consent.

October 23, 2023 A class action claims Santa Clara Valley Medical Center secretly transmits the private data of website visitors to Facebook and other third parties without consent.

October 2, 2023 A class action against H&R Block, Meta and Google claims the online tax service has secretly shared users’ tax return information with the tech giants.

September 1, 2023 A class action alleges the maker of the InPen reusable insulin pen has illegally shared with Google and other third parties the health information of users nationwide.

August 29, 2023 A class action alleges online therapy service Headway secretly shares with Google website visitors’ private data, including information about their mental health conditions.

August 23, 2023 Google faces a class action over its alleged use of tracking tools on major online tax filing websites to secretly collect consumers’ financial information.

August 21, 2023 A class action claims Tile, Inc.’s partnership with Amazon to expand the reach and efficacy of Tile trackers has “exponentially magnified” the danger faced by stalking victims.

August 8, 2023 A class action lawsuit claims dialysis services provider DaVita has unlawfully shared website visitors’ personal data with third parties, including Facebook, without consent.

July 28, 2023 A class action out of California claims Tenet Healthcare Corporation secretly discloses to third parties the private health information of patients who visit at least 12 healthcare websites it operates.

July 24, 2023 A class action alleges Rite Aid discloses website visitors’ personal and health information to Meta and other third parties without their knowledge or consent.

June 8, 2023 Three California residents have filed several proposed class action lawsuits in which they accuse certain automakers and retailers of allowing third parties to wiretap the online chat interactions of website visitors without consent.

June 7, 2023 A class action claims Labcorp has illegally recorded and disclosed website visitors’ personal and health information to Meta without their knowledge or consent.

May 31, 2023 TikTok faces a class action over its alleged collection of non-users’ data whenever they visit a website on which the app’s software development kit is installed.

May 22, 2023 Google faces a class action over its alleged use of tracking tools on healthcare provider websites and apps to secretly collect consumers’ sensitive health and personal information.

May 18, 2023 A class action lawsuit claims Microsoft, Qualtrics International and subsidiary Qualtrics LLC have “systematically” captured without consent the private information of Kaiser Permanente website users.

May 10, 2023 A proposed class action claims LifeStance Health has unlawfully disclosed to third parties the personal and health information of millions of website visitors.

May 9, 2023 A class action lawsuit claims healthcare service group Kaiser Permanente secretly shares the personal data of website visitors with numerous third parties without consent.

March 28, 2023 A class action alleges RadNet secretly transmits website visitors’ personal health information to Facebook without consent.

February 24, 2023 A class action alleges California’s Torrance Memorial Medical Center transmits website visitors’ personal and health information to Facebook without consent.

February 24, 2023 A class action lawsuit alleges that Sharp Healthcare secretly transmits Sharp.com visitors’ personal data to Meta Platforms (Facebook) without consent.

February 20, 2023 A class action alleges apparel company UNTUCKit has unlawfully recorded calls to its customer service number without notice or consent.

February 17, 2023 Home Depot faces a class action lawsuit that alleges the company “intentionally intercepted” users’ electronic communications by embedding “session replay” software into its website.

February 16, 2023 A class action lawsuit claims The Cheesecake Factory has unlawfully tracked and recorded the online communications of website visitors without consent.

February 13, 2023 A class action lawsuit claims the University of California San Francisco (UCSF) Medical Center secretly shares private patient data with Meta Platforms (Facebook) without consent.

February 9, 2023 A class action alleges Spirit Airlines has embedded “session replay" software on its website to secretly capture and record visitors’ online interactions.

February 7, 2023 A class action claims Cedars-Sinai Health System and subsidiary Cedars-Sinai Medical Center secretly transmit without consent and to numerous third parties the personal data of Cedars-Sinai.org visitors.