{"id":261078,"date":"2026-06-01T10:24:00","date_gmt":"2026-06-01T14:24:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/2026\/06\/01\/mintz-privacy-team-secures-landmark-ruling-in-california-invasion-of-privacy-act-case-mintz-employment-viewpoints\/"},"modified":"2026-06-01T10:40:12","modified_gmt":"2026-06-01T14:40:12","slug":"mintz-privacy-team-secures-landmark-ruling-in-california-invasion-of-privacy-act-case-mintz-employment-viewpoints","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/2026\/06\/01\/mintz-privacy-team-secures-landmark-ruling-in-california-invasion-of-privacy-act-case-mintz-employment-viewpoints\/","title":{"rendered":"Mintz Privacy Team Secures Landmark Ruling in California Invasion of Privacy Act Case | Mintz &#8211; Employment Viewpoints"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.jdsupra.com\/legalnews\/mintz-privacy-team-secures-landmark-6492590\/\">Mintz Privacy Team Secures Landmark Ruling in California Invasion of Privacy Act Case | Mintz &#8211; Employment Viewpoints<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.jdsupra.com\/legalnews\/mintz-privacy-team-secures-landmark-6492590\/\">https:\/\/www.jdsupra.com\/legalnews\/mintz-privacy-team-secures-landmark-6492590\/<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Publish Date: <a href=\"publish_date]\">2026-06-01 10:24:00<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Source Domain: <a href=\"www.jdsupra.com\">www.jdsupra.com<\/a><\/p>\n<p>On May 27, 2026, Judge Gary Roberts of the Los Angeles, California Superior Court ruled, in a notable decision, that the California Invasion of Privacy Act\u2019s pen register and trap and trace device provisions apply only to telephone communications and not to software on commercial websites. \u00a0The Court dismissed, with prejudice (notably), claims against Mintz client NetScout Systems, Inc. premised on deployment of a data collection software development kit (or SDK) on its website. \u00a0The Court adopted NetScout\u2019s position that these CIPA provisions do not apply to the internet broadly and are limited to telephone communications at best. \u00a0While many organizations confront the dilemma of fighting or paying for an early settlement, NetScout chose to fight, challenging Plaintiffs\u2019 lawyers\u2019 widening application of a statute intended to address telephone technologies alone.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p><strong>Why this matters: <\/strong>This decision represents a significant win for companies facing litigation over their use of pixels, web beacons, and other internet data collection technologies. \u00a0It provides companies with persuasive authority they can use in response to similar lawsuits and a roadmap for defeating these types of claims. \u00a0Moreover, it seriously weakens the argument that affirmative consent is required before companies may collect data on the Internet. \u00a0As the Court explained in its written ruling, \u201cthe internet was in widespread use when these provisions were enacted in 2015. \u00a0If the Legislature had intended for section 638.51 to apply to commercial websites, it would have so stated either in the statute itself or in the surrounding materials.\u201d<\/p>\n<p><strong>Summary Analysis:<\/strong> The California legislature inserted the pen register and trap and trace provisions (California Penal Code \u00a7\u00a7 638.50 through 638.53) as a package in 2015 to amend CIPA, well after internet data collection technologies had emerged and had become widely deployed. \u00a0Since 2023, Plaintiffs\u2019 lawyers have premised claims&#8230;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.jdsupra.com\/legalnews\/mintz-privacy-team-secures-landmark-6492590\/\">Source<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Mintz Privacy Team Secures Landmark Ruling in California Invasion of Privacy Act Case | Mintz&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":261080,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/jdsupra-static.s3.amazonaws.com\/profile-images\/og.66_4830.jpg","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[16],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-261078","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\/261078"}],"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=261078"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/261078\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":261082,"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/261078\/revisions\/261082"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/261080"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=261078"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=261078"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=261078"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}