Two California residents filed suit against the owner of adult website YouPorn, alleging it had violated cybercrime and consumer-protection laws by using surreptitious technology to harvest information about what websites they had visited. The suit, which a lawyer for the plaintiffs said was filed in the U.S. District Court of the Central District of California, is one of the first to target a practice called "history-sniffing," which is drawing increased scrutiny from regulators and academics.
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