Court Tosses Privacy Complaint Over Cookies on Carrier's Website

A federal judge dismissed with prejudice a proposed class action complaint alleging that a workers' compensation carrier's website collected data in violation of California's online privacy laws. Emily Rodriguez initially alleged that Accident Fund Holdings Inc. violated the California privacy laws by using undisclosed tracking cookies on its website in her lawsuit filed in Los Angeles County Superior Court. Accident Fund removed the case to federal court. "Because plaintiff denies entering any genuinely private information — either demographics, interests and preferen...