Privacy Group Supports 9th Circuit Appeal Over Facebook Persistent Cookie Use

(July 3, 2018, 4:13 PM EDT) -- SAN FRANCISCO — Consumer privacy organization The Electronic Privacy Information Center (EPIC) filed an amicus curiae brief on June 26, urging the Ninth Circuit U.S. Court of Appeals to find that Facebook Inc.’s use of persistent cookies to track the private internet browsing activity of social network users, even after they were logged out of the service, was “an invasive business practice in violation of privacy laws” (In re:  Facebook Inc. Internet Tracking Litigation, No. 17-17486, 9th Cir.)....