Federal judge dismisses privacy lawsuit against Crypto.com over cookie tracking

Clicking “Disable All” on a cookie banner feels like a small act of digital self-defense. A federal judge has now ruled that two people who said Crypto.com ignored that click could not show they were actually harmed by it. On October 7, 2026, a federal court in the Northern District of California dismissed a proposed class-action lawsuit against Foris DAX, Inc., the company that operates the Crypto.com platform. The court found the plaintiffs lacked the concrete injury required for Article III standing, which closed the case entirely. What the plaintiffs alleged The suit was brought by Jose Ortiz and Javier Hernandez, who filed it on October 17, 2025, under case number 3:25-cv-08950. Their central complaint was simple to describe and, as it turned out, hard to litigate. According to the complaint, Crypto.com kept third-party tracking running even after visitors selected “Disable All” on the site’s cookie consent banner. They claimed this conduct violated several privacy laws. The headliner was the California Invasion of Privacy Act, usually shortened to CIPA, a state statute that has become a favorite tool in lawsuits over how websites monitor their visitors. The case did not survi...