Williams v. DDR Media, LLC

BACKGROUND

18 On June 27, 2022, plaintiff Loretta Williams filed this putative class action lawsuit against 19 defendants DDR Media LLC and Lead Intelligence Inc. d/b/a Jornaya (“Jornaya”). Williams claims 20 that defendants violated her privacy when she visited DDR Media’s website, snappyrent2own.com, 21 because her keystrokes were recorded by a computer code embedded on the website through a 22 Jornaya software product called “TCPA Guardian.” Williams alleges that defendants recorded her 23 personal information and that the recording constitutes wiretapping in violation of California law. 24 According to Jornaya’s Chief Technology Officer Manny Wald, TCPA Guardian “is 25 designed to help companies comply with the Telephone Consumer Protection Act, or TCPA, which 26 restricts how companies contact consumers using autodialing technology without prior consent.” 27 February 2024 Wald Decl. ¶ 4. Wald states, The TCPA Guardian service is based on a JavaScript, called LeadiD Create. For a website owner who places LeadiD Create on its website, each time a visitor visits that website, the script generates a unique numerical reference—called a LeadiD— and…