Northern District of California Holds Plaintiffs Lack Article III Standing to Sue Ancestry.com for Profiting Off Their Personal Information Without Consent
By EsqSocial Corporation 07/04/21
On March 1, 2021, Magistrate Judge Laurel Beeler of the Northern District of California dismissed a variety of claims brought against the genealogy website Ancestry.com based on the website’s use of individuals’ personal information obtained from school yearbooks. In so doing, Judge Beeler added to the growing body of case law defining what constitutes an injury sufficient to support Article III standing in the context of data privacy class actions and highlighted the potential utility of...
By: King & Spalding