California Sues Delta Airlines

Cal­i­for­nia is suing Delta Air­lines Inc., alleg­ing the com­pany is break­ing state law by not warn­ing users that it is col­lect­ing sen­si­tive infor­ma­tion each time cus­tomers con­tact the air­line online. Attor­ney Gen­eral Kamala Har­ris sued the Atlanta-based com­pany Thurs­day in San Fran­cisco Supe­rior Court in the first legal test of the state’s 8-year-old Online Pri­vacy Pro­tec­tion Act. Cal­i­for­nia is the only state with such a law, which requires com­pa­nies to promi­nently notify users of their mobile com­puter appli­ca­tions of what per­son­ally iden­ti­fi­able infor­ma­tion is being col­lected and how it will be used.