A federal court in the Southern District of California declined to dismiss wiretapping and eavesdropping claims tied to Skullcandy Inc.’s alleged use of online trackers on its retail website, allowing the lawsuit to move forward. Plaintiff alleges that Skullcandy used tracking tools from Meta Platforms and Google to collect browser and purchase data. Jones v.
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Adidas Removes Putative Class Action Suit Arising Out of the Data Breach Announced Earlier this Year
By William Daley on
Posted in Enforcement + Litigation
On June 28, 2018, Adidas released a statement announcing that it recently “became aware that an unauthorized party claims to have acquired limited data associated with certain Adidas consumers.” Adidas believed the breach was limited to contact information, usernames and encrypted passwords, and not any stored credit card or fitness information, relating to millions of…