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Data Privacy

Dec. 6, 2024

Owner of The Hill website targeted with privacy lawsuit

The complaint, filed in the Northern District of California, accused Nexstar of re-installing targeted advertising tracker cookies every time a user visits The Hill's website.

Nexstar Media Inc. was hit with a putative privacy class action lawsuit by readers of The Hill, a Nexstar subsidiary and one of the country's leading political news outlets, that claimed they "could not escape" being illegally tracked for advertising purposes.

The complaint, filed Wednesday in the Northern District of California, accused Nexstar of re-installing targeted advertising tracker cookies every time a user visits The Hill's website even if users previou...

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