Shopify to face privacy class action in California
A San Francisco appeals court has given leave for a privacy class action case to proceed against Shopify. The Canadian e-commerce platform is accused of collecting personal identifying data from people who make purchases on websites of retailers from California. The post Shopify to face privacy class action in California appeared first on Global Cosmetics News.
THE WHAT? A San Francisco appeals court has given leave for a privacy class action case to proceed against Shopify. The Canadian e-commerce platform is accused of collecting personal identifying data from people who make purchases on websites of retailers from California.
THE DETAILS According to a report published by Reuters, a Californian resident claims that Shopify installed cookies on his iPhone without his consent and used that data to create a profile it could then sell.
THE WHY? Shopify’s argument that its actions were not specific to California was dismissed by the appeals court. Circuit Judge Kim McLane Wardlow ruled, per Reuters, “Shopify deliberately reached out by knowingly installing tracking software onto unsuspecting Californians’ phones so that it could later sell the data it obtained, in a manner that was neither random, isolated or fortuitous.”
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