I am not sure that you have any legal standing.
No. Wait. I'm wrong. You don't have any legal standing. I'd argue this in front of any judge based on:
1. Surfing the internet is a voluntary activity.
2. You have no identifiable damages, and therefore any claim for damages.
3. When you visit a website, you allow that site to put a cookie up, basically, by visiting.
4. Nothing is 'illegal' until a governing body says that it is so, and last I checked, Congress has not passed, and the President has not signed, any bill making it illegal to put a little thinginy in your Internet files tracking your presence on websites.
5. There isn't, despite what Justice Brennan liked to think, a right to privacy that exists in the penumbras of the Constitution, and hopefully the ones that he penciled in will dissappear before long.
6. The Constitiution does not protect people from each other, only from the government itself.
7. The long standing principal, caveat emptor, still exists, and I think should, when it comes to surfing the internet.
This certainly, isn't very deep legal thinking, but must the judges I know would buy into it, I believe.....
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