Mass. SJC Limits Website Tracking Technology Claims Under Wiretap Act
By: Christopher Valente and Michael Stortz
In a critical new decision, the Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court has confirmed that the state’s anti-wiretapping statute does not extend to website tracking technologies. In Vita v. New England Baptist Hospital, the Court held that the state’s 1968 Wiretap Act (Mass. G.L. c. 272, § 99) does not apply to the deployment of online software that collects and transmits information regarding user interactions with websites to third parties.
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