The U.S. Chamber of Commerce is siding with Google and Viacom in asking an appellate court to throw out a lawsuit accusing the companies of violating a federal privacy law by using tracking cookies on children’s website Nick.com. The chamber says the lawsuit “aims to change the predominant functional construct of the Internet,” MediaPost reports. The chamber claims U.S. District Court Judge Stanley Chesler, who found data stored in cookies isn’t personally identifiable, correctly threw out the case last year. Plaintiffs in the case appealed the ruling to the 3^rd Circuit Court of Appeals arguing Google can identify them by combining cookie-based data with other information, the report states.
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