By Skye Witley
A California federal ruling has put pressure on lawyers suing Walt Disney Co. for violating the plaintiffs’ right to privacy to find out whether the user’s knowledge allegedly intercepted at the company’s request is sensitive enough to confer Article III on a motion to dismiss Thursday’s hearing.
Plaintiffs Amin James and David Sevesind alleged in their May 22 lawsuit that Disney hired a third party, Oracle America Inc. , to use proprietary pixel tracking generation to “secretly” record how users visiting ESPN. com interacted with the site, aggregating what they typed and clicked on. but without prior consent. Disney and Oracle used the knowledge gathered to target. . .
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