Nutrisystem class action alleges company shared customer data without consent

Nutrisystem class action lawsuit overview:

• Who: Plaintiff Amelia Ingrao filed a class action lawsuit against Nutrisystem Inc.
• Why: Ingrao claims Nutrisystem shared customer information with a web-tracking company without users’ consent.
• Where: The class action lawsuit was filed in the Court of Common Pleas in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania.

A new class action lawsuit claims Nutrisystem shared customer information with a web-tracking company without users’ consent.

Plaintiff Amelia Ingrao’s class action lawsuit, filed Jan. 28, alleges Nutrisystem shared customer information with AddShoppers, a company that collects and analyzes user information for marketing purposes.

“While AddShoppers paints a benevolent picture of its marketing program called SafeOpt, the terms and conditions AddShoppers imposes on its partner businesses detail a much more invasive and sinister operation,” the class action says.

Ingrao claims AddShoppers surreptitiously connects sensitive user data derived from online retailers to create “dossiers” of individuals who use the websites and then tracks them across the internet for financial gain.

Ingrao says she unknowingly came into contact with AddShoppers when she browsed Nutrisystem’s website in January 2024. She claims she never gave the companies her personal information but received an email from Nutrisystem via SafeOpt.

The lawsuit argues that was done without her consent, as she never agreed to any terms or conditions on the website.

Nutrisystem class action alleges SafeOpt can reveal exceptionally private customer information

Such tracking can have serious privacy consequences, Ingrao argues, affecting a host of consumers.

“Among many other privacy concerns, SafeOpt’s network of business includes companies that sell highly personal products, including feminine hygiene and men’s health products,” the lawsuit says. “As a result, SafeOpt can reveal exceptionally private information about customers to anyone that shares a computer.”

The class members’ personal information is independently valuable, as evidenced by AddShoppers’ collection of it, the complaint argues, adding that the users are harmed every time their information is used without their consent.

The lawsuit seeks to represent a class of California residents whose personal information was collected by AddShoppers after visiting Nutrisystem’s website.

Ingrao asserts claims for violations of California’s consumer privacy laws.

Meanwhile, another new class action lawsuit alleges LinkedIn unlawfully disclosed its premium customers’ private messages to third parties to train generative artificial intelligence models.

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Ingrao is represented by Charles E. Schaffer of Levin Sedran & Berman LLP.

The Nutrisystem class action lawsuit is Amelia Ingrao v. Nutrisystem Inc., Case No. 250103306, in the Philadelphia County Court of Common Pleas.

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