Restaurant Website Data Tracking Class Action Narrowed After Dismissal Ruling

( June 23, 2026, 9:19 AM EDT) -- SAN FRANCISCO — A California federal magistrate judge granted in part and denied in part a second motion to dismiss a proposed class action alleging that restaurant companies continued tracking their website users after they declined cookies, holding that the website users cured earlier pleading defects but failed to adequately plead a wiretapping claim under the California Invasion of Privacy Act (CIPA) and could not proceed on certain time-barred CIPA claims tied to specific plaintiffs and restaurant-brand websites....