{"id":121,"date":"2026-08-12T10:38:07","date_gmt":"2026-08-12T14:38:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.duanemorris.com\/adatitleiiicompliance\/?p=121"},"modified":"2026-08-12T10:38:08","modified_gmt":"2026-08-12T14:38:08","slug":"recent-decisions-strengthen-defense-playbook-website-tracking-class-actions","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.duanemorris.com\/adatitleiiicompliance\/2026\/08\/12\/recent-decisions-strengthen-defense-playbook-website-tracking-class-actions\/","title":{"rendered":"Recent Decisions Strengthen the Defense Playbook in Website Tracking Class Actions"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">By <a href=\"https:\/\/www.duanemorris.com\/attorneys\/jcolinknisely.html\">J. Colin Knisely<\/a> and\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.duanemorris.com\/attorneys\/michaelszullo.html\">Michael S. Zullo<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Four recent federal court decisions have dealt significant blows to plaintiffs in the ongoing wave of &#8220;pixel&#8221; and cookie-tracking privacy class actions, while one decision illustrates that plaintiffs can still survive early dismissal when they plead their claims with sufficient factual specificity. Together, the rulings sharpen the emerging battle lines for defendants facing wiretapping, invasion-of-privacy and computer-fraud claims premised on website tracking technologies.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.duanemorris.com\/alerts\/recent_decisions_strengthen_defense_playbook_website_tracking_class_actions_0826.html\">Read the full <em>Alert<\/em> on the Duane Morris LLP website<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>By J. Colin Knisely and\u00a0Michael S. Zullo Four recent federal court decisions have dealt significant blows to plaintiffs in the ongoing wave of &#8220;pixel&#8221; and cookie-tracking privacy class actions, while one decision illustrates that plaintiffs can still survive early dismissal when they plead their claims with sufficient factual specificity. Together, the rulings sharpen the emerging &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.duanemorris.com\/adatitleiiicompliance\/2026\/08\/12\/recent-decisions-strengthen-defense-playbook-website-tracking-class-actions\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Recent Decisions Strengthen the Defense Playbook in Website Tracking Class Actions&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":6,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[13,70,5,68,69],"ppma_author":[56],"class_list":["post-121","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-general","tag-americans-with-disabilities-act","tag-class-actions","tag-colin-knisely","tag-michael-zullo","tag-pixels"],"authors":[{"term_id":56,"user_id":6,"is_guest":0,"slug":"duanemorris3","display_name":"Duane Morris","avatar_url":"https:\/\/secure.gravatar.com\/avatar\/843ff6e7a8fe5fc92109b47a45f34b6cf0ea499e6e788db23456c838b0ae6747?s=96&d=blank&r=g","author_category":"1","last_name":"Sullivan","first_name":"Margaret","job_title":"","user_url":"http:\/\/www.duanemorris.com","description":"<a href=\"http:\/\/www.duanemorris.com\">Visit the Duane Morris website.<\/a>"}],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.duanemorris.com\/adatitleiiicompliance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/121","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.duanemorris.com\/adatitleiiicompliance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.duanemorris.com\/adatitleiiicompliance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.duanemorris.com\/adatitleiiicompliance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/6"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.duanemorris.com\/adatitleiiicompliance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=121"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.duanemorris.com\/adatitleiiicompliance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/121\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":123,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.duanemorris.com\/adatitleiiicompliance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/121\/revisions\/123"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.duanemorris.com\/adatitleiiicompliance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=121"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.duanemorris.com\/adatitleiiicompliance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=121"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.duanemorris.com\/adatitleiiicompliance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=121"},{"taxonomy":"author","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.duanemorris.com\/adatitleiiicompliance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/ppma_author?post=121"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}