Judge kills software eavesdropping lawsuit against Bloomingdale’s

Retailer Bloomingdale escaped accusations that it tracked what customers typed and clicked on its website, in violation of privacy and wiretapping laws, after a federal judge in Missouri dismissed the case on its own motion.

The claims of plaintiff Ann Jones against the Macy’s Inc.The company-owned company alleged no concrete injury and was legally indistinguishable from a recently dismissed action brought by its counsel on behalf of another client, Judge Sarah E. Pitlyk ruled Monday in the U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of Missouri.

The dismissal deepens a string of recent failures by litigants to bring persuasive federal and state law…