SACRAMENTO — Attorney General Kamala Harris’ quest to bring Delta Air Lines’ app into compliance with state privacy laws crashed and burned this week when the First District Court of Appeal tossed out her case.
In 2012, Harris sued the airline in San Francisco Superior Court, alleging that its Fly Delta app failed to post a privacy policy telling users what information the company was collecting about them and what it was doing with it. The AG made a big splash with the suit, giving her office the chance to portray Harris as a consumer privacy defender willing to take on a big company—albeit one based in Georgia, not California—to enforce California’s Online Privacy Protection Act, or CalOPPA.
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