Lawsuit against Delta's mobile app privacy violations dismissed
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The airline can breathe easy: states cannot enforce separate rules on airlines related to price, routes or services, and California court agreed with Delta against the California Attorney General's lawsuit.
Delta Air Lines Inc. won dismissal of a case claiming it violated California’s online privacy law because its mobile-phone application didn’t notify users that personal information, such as their locations, was collected.
The lawsuit was the first brought by California Attorney General Kamala D. Harris under the state’s Online Privacy Protection Act since she announced a privacy protocol last year intended to bring the mobile application industry in line with consumer protection rules.
Harris warned Delta in October that it had 30 days to clearly post
