Christopher Brown reports:
LinkedIn Corp. must face three related lawsuits alleging it collected the sensitive information of visitors to several health-related websites without their consent in violation of California privacy laws.
The individual plaintiffs in two of the proposed class actions adequately pleaded claims of invasion of privacy under the California Constitution and violations of section 632 of the California Invasion of Privacy Act, Judge Edward J. Davila of the US District Court for the Northern District of California said Oct. 10. The plaintiff in a third lawsuit adequately pleaded the same invasion-of-privacy claim.
Davila also granted Meta Platforms Inc.‘s motion to sever claims against it in a fourth related lawsuit, sending those claims to another court in the Northern District of California for consolidation with In re Meta Pixel Healthcare Litigation. He then dismissed the remaining claims in the fourth lawsuit, which targeted LinkedIn and co-defendant Spring Fertility Holdings LLC, with leave to amend.
He also dismissed the claims in all of the lawsuits under section 631 of the CIPA.
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