Williams v. What If Holdings, LLC

UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT

NORTHERN DISTRICT OF CALIFORNIA

LORETTA WILLIAMS, Plaintiff, No. C 22-03780 WHA

v.

WHAT IF HOLDINGS, LLC, and ORDER DENYING LEAVE

ACTIVEPROSPECT, INC., TO AMEND AND

VACATING HEARING

Defendants.

In this putative class action alleging wiretapping via recording software deployed on certain webpages, plaintiff moves for leave to file a first amended complaint. For the following reasons, plaintiff’s motion is DENIED. The facts herein are described in our previous order (Dkt. No. 49). In sum, plaintiff visited defendant What If Holdings, LLC’s website, which utilized software made by defendant ActiveProspect, Inc. called “TrustedForm.” TrustedForm creates video replays of a website visitor’s interactions with the webpage on which it is deployed, as it did for plaintiff’s interaction with certain pages on What If’s website. Plaintiff’s original complaint asserted that this recordation violated the wiretapping provision of the California Invasion of Privacy Act …