AOL, Spotify, GigaOm, Etsy, KISSmetrics sued over undeletable tracking cookies
- By Sebastian Anthony on August 4, 2011
Over the last few days a story has been developing about an undeletable tracking cookie used by KISSmetrics, a website analytics company. This company and more than 20 of its clients have now had a class action lawsuit filed against them. The plaintiffs claim that the Privacy Act and Electronics Communications Privacy Act have been broken, that their personal property (chattel) has been trespassed on, and that the defendants have violated unfair competition law. Anyone who has visited one of the defendants’ sites is able to join the class action, and actual damages of up to $10,000 per member of the class are sought. If punitive damages are also awarded this lawsuit could be worth hundreds of millions of dollars.
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