{"id":1201,"date":"2025-08-12T08:36:15","date_gmt":"2025-08-12T12:36:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.duanemorris.com\/techlaw\/?p=1201"},"modified":"2025-08-12T08:36:17","modified_gmt":"2025-08-12T12:36:17","slug":"northern-district-of-california-dismisses-cipa-trap-and-trace-claim-over-tiktok-tracking-code","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.duanemorris.com\/techlaw\/2025\/08\/12\/northern-district-of-california-dismisses-cipa-trap-and-trace-claim-over-tiktok-tracking-code\/","title":{"rendered":"Northern District of California Dismisses CIPA &#8220;Trap and Trace&#8221; Claim Over TikTok Tracking Code"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>On August 6, 2025, in <em>Mitchener v. CuriosityStream, Inc.<\/em>, Judge No\u00ebl Wise of the U.S. District Court for the Northern District of California dismissed with prejudice a putative class action alleging that CuriosityStream&#8217;s use of TikTok tracking software on its website violated the California Invasion of Privacy Act&#8217;s &#8220;trap and trace&#8221; provisions. The ruling follows Judge Wise\u2019s June 24, 2025, decision in <em>Kishnani v. Royal Caribbean Cruises Ltd.<\/em>, which dismissed a substantively identical complaint brought by the same plaintiffs&#8217; counsel. The <em>Kishnani<\/em> matter is currently on appeal to the Ninth Circuit, but Judge Wise declined to delay ruling in <em>Mitchener<\/em> pending the outcome of that appeal. <a href=\"https:\/\/www.duanemorris.com\/alerts\/northern_district_california_dismisses_cipa_trap_trace_claim_over_tiktok_tracking_code_0825.html\" data-type=\"link\" data-id=\"https:\/\/www.duanemorris.com\/alerts\/northern_district_california_dismisses_cipa_trap_trace_claim_over_tiktok_tracking_code_0825.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Read the full <em>Alert <\/em>on the Duane Morris website. <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>On August 6, 2025, in Mitchener v. CuriosityStream, Inc., Judge No\u00ebl Wise of the U.S. District Court for the Northern District of California dismissed with prejudice a putative class action alleging that CuriosityStream&#8217;s use of TikTok tracking software on its website violated the California Invasion of Privacy Act&#8217;s &#8220;trap and trace&#8221; provisions. The ruling follows &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.duanemorris.com\/techlaw\/2025\/08\/12\/northern-district-of-california-dismisses-cipa-trap-and-trace-claim-over-tiktok-tracking-code\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Northern District of California Dismisses CIPA &#8220;Trap and Trace&#8221; Claim Over TikTok Tracking Code&#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":[1051],"tags":[1246,843,1251,1035,12],"ppma_author":[878],"class_list":["post-1201","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-privacy","tag-cipa","tag-colin-knisely","tag-metadata","tag-michael-s-zullo","tag-privacy"],"authors":[{"term_id":878,"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","0":null,"1":"","2":"","3":"","4":"","5":"","6":"","7":"","8":""}],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.duanemorris.com\/techlaw\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1201","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.duanemorris.com\/techlaw\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.duanemorris.com\/techlaw\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.duanemorris.com\/techlaw\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/6"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.duanemorris.com\/techlaw\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1201"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.duanemorris.com\/techlaw\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1201\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.duanemorris.com\/techlaw\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1201"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.duanemorris.com\/techlaw\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1201"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.duanemorris.com\/techlaw\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1201"},{"taxonomy":"author","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.duanemorris.com\/techlaw\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/ppma_author?post=1201"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}