{"id":214934,"date":"2026-02-18T11:57:00","date_gmt":"2026-02-18T16:57:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/2026\/02\/18\/reddit-fails-to-defeat-privacy-suit-over-liveramp-tracker-use\/"},"modified":"2026-02-18T12:30:10","modified_gmt":"2026-02-18T17:30:10","slug":"reddit-fails-to-defeat-privacy-suit-over-liveramp-tracker-use","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/2026\/02\/18\/reddit-fails-to-defeat-privacy-suit-over-liveramp-tracker-use\/","title":{"rendered":"Reddit Fails to Defeat Privacy Suit Over LiveRamp Tracker Use"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/news.bloomberglaw.com\/daily-labor-report\/reddit-fails-to-defeat-privacy-suit-over-liveramp-tracker-use\">Reddit Fails to Defeat Privacy Suit Over LiveRamp Tracker Use<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/news.bloomberglaw.com\/daily-labor-report\/reddit-fails-to-defeat-privacy-suit-over-liveramp-tracker-use\">https:\/\/news.bloomberglaw.com\/daily-labor-report\/reddit-fails-to-defeat-privacy-suit-over-liveramp-tracker-use<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Publish Date: <a href=\"publish_date]\">2026-02-18 11:57:00<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Source Domain: <a href=\"news.bloomberglaw.com\">news.bloomberglaw.com<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Reddit failed to convince a federal court to dismiss a lawsuit alleging its use of LiveRamp Inc.\u2018s online tracker violated California\u2019s regulations requiring permission or a court order to use a pen register. <\/p>\n<p>The social media network told the US District Court for the Southern District of California that LiveRamp\u2019s technology doesn\u2019t capture outgoing dialing or addressing information, and thus doesn\u2019t count as a pen register. It also said California didn\u2019t intend to cover use of LiveRamp\u2019s tracker under its Invasion of Privacy Act. <\/p>\n<p>The arguments didn\u2019t persuade Judge Janis L. Sammartino, who declined to dismiss the class &#8230;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/news.bloomberglaw.com\/daily-labor-report\/reddit-fails-to-defeat-privacy-suit-over-liveramp-tracker-use\">Source<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Reddit Fails to Defeat Privacy Suit Over LiveRamp Tracker Use https:\/\/news.bloomberglaw.com\/daily-labor-report\/reddit-fails-to-defeat-privacy-suit-over-liveramp-tracker-use Publish Date: 2026-02-18 11:57:00&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":214935,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/db0ip7zd23b50.cloudfront.net\/dims4\/default\/0984f2b\/2147483647\/crop\/4500x1734+0+774\/resize\/960x370%3E\/quality\/90\/?url=http%3A%2F%2Fbloomberg-bna-brightspot.s3.amazonaws.com%2F13%2F95%2Fb3ff0a1f40528795cc251d370ba5%2Fgettyimages-1076536908.jpg","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[16],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-214934","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-privacy"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/214934"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=214934"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/214934\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":214936,"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/214934\/revisions\/214936"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/214935"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=214934"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=214934"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=214934"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}