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Stripe defeats wiretapping, but not invasion of privacy, claims, US judge says

By Amy Miller ( July 28, 2021, 21:30 GMT | Insight) -- Online payment processor Stripe can rely on disclosures from partner companies’ privacy policies to obtain consent to collect consumer data, a US district court judge said, dismissing claims that the company violated wiretapping laws. But claims that Stripe violated consumers’ privacy have survived, US District Judge Yvonne Gonzalez Rogers in Oakland, California, said. Consumers may have consented to the data collection, she said, but it was not unlimited consent. “Privacy is not an ‘all-or-nothing’ proposition," she said. Online payment processor Stripe can rely on disclosures from partner companies’ privacy policies to obtain consent to collect consumer data for the purpose of preventing fraud, a US district court judge said, dismissing claims that the company violated wiretapping laws....

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