Bloomberg Law
Nov. 21, 2017, 5:04 PM UTC

Facebook Can Log Off From Offline-User Tracking Class Suit

Jimmy Koo

Facebook Inc. won’t have to face claims by a massive potential class that it tracked offline users’ internet activities, after a California federal court dismissed the suit for a third and final time.

Plaintiffs failed to convince the U.S. District Court for the Northern District of California that the Menlo Park, Calif.-based social media giant was contractually bound to not track the internet activities of logged-out Facebook users ( In re Facebook Internet Tracking Litig. , 2017 BL 414264, N.D. Cal., No. 5:12-md-02314-EJD, 11/17/17 ).

The multidistrict litigation consolidated in California had gone through two previous rounds of dismissal motions ...

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