A Bakersfield small business owner is under fire, facing a lawsuit for allegedly breaking a decades-old privacy law. But some business owners insist this isn’t about protecting privacy, it’s about big payouts.
Brandon Phipps is the Owner of Second Star Technologies, and he says, “I don’t understand how any person in their right mind could confuse a telephone line and a website cookie.”
A wave of lawsuits is sweeping California, targeting small businesses accused of breaking a decades-old privacy law. The California Invasion of Privacy Act, written in the 1960s to stop wiretapping, is now being used against modern websites. Live chats, user trackers, and tools you see every day are now under scrutiny…