BOSTON — A class action against the department store corporation behind TJ Maxx and Marshalls was dismissed in a Massachusetts federal court. The consumers said the company illegally embedded a spy pixel in its promotional emails to collect info about email recipients. The court found that the spy pixel only reported information about those emails (e.g. whether they are forwarded and what kind of email server the reader used), which is not intrusive enough to count as a concrete injury suffered.
Read the ruling here.
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