FanDuel class action claims website shares personal data with TikTok

FanDuel class action lawsuit overview:

• Who: Rebeka Rodriguez filed a class action lawsuit against FanDuel Inc.
• Why: Rodriguez claims FanDuel unlawfully shares the personal information of its website visitors with TikTok.
• Where: The class action lawsuit was filed in California state court.

ArFanDuel shares the personal information of visitors to its website with TikTok without their consent, a new class action lawsuit alleges. 

Plaintiff Rebeka Rodriguez claims FanDuel aids TikTok’s parent company ByteDance “to surveil its interactions with visitors to its website, allowing TikTok to create detailed portraits of website visitors’ interests, needs and desires.”

Rodriguez further alleges that FanDuel makes false promises to protect visitors’ privacy but then secretly monetizes their personal information by enabling TikTok to spy on them.

“Rather than candidly disclose this arrangement, Defendant explicitly and implicitly assured Website visitors that their identities and privacy would be protected,” the FanDuel class action says. 

Rodriguez wants to represent a California class of consumers whose personal information was shared with TikTok or other third parties by FanDuel without their effective and informed prior consent. 

FanDuel website uses TikTok tracking software without consent, class action says

Rodriguez argues FanDuel’s website uses TikTok software to spy on users, gathering device and browser information, geographic information, referral tracking and URL tracking by running code or “scripts” on the website to send user details to TikTok.

“The TikTok Software begins to collect information the moment a user lands on the Website before any pop-up or cookie banner advises users of the invasion or seeks their consent,” the FanDuel class action lawsuit says. 

Rodriguez claims FanDuel violated California’s Trap and Trace Law. She demands a jury trial and requests injunctive relief and an award of statutory damages for herself and all class members. 

FanDuel previously made headlines in 2023 when an unauthorized party obtained customer names and email addresses during a data breach involving the email marketing company MailChimp. 

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The plaintiff is represented by Todd M. Friedman and Adrian R. Bacon of the Law Offices of Todd M. Friedman, P.C.The FanDuel class action lawsuit is Rodriguez, et al. v. FanDuel Inc., Case No. 24-cv-11160, in the Superior Court of the State of California, County of Los Angeles.

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