March 26, 2026
The Third Circuit on Thursday said the federal courts lacked jurisdiction to hear a case alleging that Harriet Carter Gifts and a third-party company violated consumers' privacy rights under Pennsylvania wiretapping law by collecting their website browsing data, ordering the lower court to remand the case to state court.
March 25, 2025
Websites that disclose third-party data collection in privacy statements that a "reasonably prudent person" could see do not violate Pennsylvania's laws against wiretapping, a federal judge has ruled, throwing out a long-running lawsuit that defendants claimed could have rendered many websites illegal.
April 27, 2023
A Pennsylvania federal judge has said he needs more information about how burdensome a discovery request will be for a data-tracking company in a proposed class action alleging it and a retailer violated state wiretapping law.
April 12, 2023
An online shopper claiming that third-party data collection violates Pennsylvania's law against wiretapping wants to know how many people actually clicked on a shopping website's privacy policy, arguing to a federal judge Wednesday that it was relevant to whether consumers were reasonably on notice that their information was being collected and shared.
June 18, 2021
A company offering third-party tracking software for websites did not violate Pennsylvania's anti-wiretapping law because it did not intercept customers' data or receive it within the state, a federal judge has ruled.
May 04, 2021
Software from data tracking company NaviStone Inc. "intercepted" a Pennsylvania woman's data because it ran on her computer while she browsed an online shopping site, justifying keeping her proposed class action lawsuit grounded in the laws of the Keystone State, she told a federal court.
April 14, 2021
A lawsuit claiming a third party's collection of data from an online retailer's website violated Pennsylvania's anti-wiretap law threatens to criminalize the practices that underpin much online advertising, security and website optimization, attorneys told a Pittsburgh federal court Wednesday.
November 17, 2020
Online retailer Harriet Carter Gifts and software company NaviStone Inc. have urged a federal judge to let them escape shoppers' claims that they violated wiretapping laws by tracking customers' data on the Harriet Carter website, arguing a ruling for the consumers would "effectively criminalize internet commerce."
December 06, 2019
An online marketing company got a Pennsylvania woman's invasion of privacy claim tossed from a lawsuit over its alleged tracking of her information from a retailer's website, but must still face her claim that it violated the state's wiretapping law, a federal judge ruled Friday.
April 22, 2019
Online retailer Harriet Carter Gifts used NaviStone Inc.'s software to secretly record and use identifying information customers typed into forms on the retailer's website, even if that information was never officially submitted with an order, according to a Pennsylvania woman's $5 million proposed class action lawsuit moved to federal court Friday.