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Amid surge of US wiretapping suits over web trackers, Massachusetts court pushes back

By Mike Swift ( November 6, 2024, 01:05 GMT | Comment) -- Federal and state wiretapping laws that date from the rotary-dial telephone era, such as the California Invasion of Privacy Act, are increasingly being used to challenge Internet-era tracking systems like Google Analytics, Meta Pixel and software development kits. But some courts, like the Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court, are starting to push back on whether 1960s laws intended for the landline phone era can apply to 21st Century tracking software.Most US wiretapping laws date from an era in the late 1960s and early 1970s when “mobile phone” meant dragging a copper extension wire into the hallway for a private conversation outside of dad’s earshot, and when communicating with someone required spinning the wheel of a rotary phone to dial a seven-digit number....

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