US YouPorn Lawsuit Targets an Online Data Collection Technique

Two California residents filed suit against the owner of adult website YouPorn, alleging it had violated cybercrime and consumer-protection laws by using surreptitious technology to harvest information about what websites they had visited.

Two California residents filed suit against the owner of adult website YouPorn, alleging it had violated cybercrime and consumer-protection laws by using surreptitious technology to harvest information about what websites they had visited.The suit, which a lawyer for the plaintiffs said was filed late Friday in the U.S. District Court of the Central District of California, is one of the first to target a practice called “history-sniffing,” which is drawing increased scrutiny from regulators and academics.
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