Adidas and Crocs Sued in Separate Lawsuits Over Alleged Violations of Consumer Laws

Crocs and Adidas have been named in two separate class action lawsuits alleging that both brands violated consumer privacy laws.

Both lawsuits, filed in late November by the same lawyer with two different lead plaintiffs, accuse the brands of violating the California Invasion of Privacy Act, which prohibits people and businesses from wiretapping or confidentially recording conversations without the consent of all parties.

The suit against Crocs alleges that the clog maker “secretly wiretaps the private conversations of everyone who communicates through the chat feature” on its website and that it allows a third party to listen into these conversation in real-time without consumer consent to “harvest data for financial gain.” The suit say it believes the third party listener is either SalesForce or software platform Kayako — or both.

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