Daniel Mirarchi (Of Counsel-Philadelphia, PA) and Alexander DiMeo (Associate-Philadelphia, PA) co-authored “How Buying Pet Stairs Led to a Class Action Lawsuit over Wiretapping,” which appeared on February 6, 2023, in Thomson Reuters Westlaw Today. With the backdrop of an online customer purchasing a set of pet stairs, Dan and Alex explore the pitfalls of not obtaining consent from consumers prior to collecting their data or installing cookies on a browser: “… courts will give broad meaning to what ‘interception’ of a communication is under Pennsylvania's Wiretapping and Electronic Surveillance Control Act. … this could create precedent for similar cases before the court until a comprehensive data privacy law is enacted in the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania.”

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