Disney allowed Adobe and Comscore to collect disney.com search data, a new class action claims.

Saleha Abdullah filed a class action lawsuit against Disney DTC LLC on Oct. 19, 2026, in the Superior Court of California for Contra Costa County.

The complaint alleges Disney's website let two outside companies, Adobe Inc. and Comscore Inc., collect the exact words visitors typed into its search bar without their consent.

How the search tracking allegedly worked

Disney.com loads Adobe Analytics and a measurement tag from Comscore, a company that tracks online audiences across many websites, into each visitor's browser, the lawsuit claims. When someone runs a search on the site, that code sends the typed words straight from the browser to the two companies' servers without stopping at Disney's own servers, according to the complaint.

Adobe’s privacy overview says its analytics tool does not collect site search terms unless a website owner sets it up to do so. The filing therefore contends Disney chose that setup so each search reaches Adobe in a field labeled as the visitor’s search term along with an ID that follows the visitor from page to page.

Comscore allegedly receives the searches word for word along with a cookie that can recognize the same browser for more than a year.

Abdullah claims both companies received the words she typed when she searched disney.com for content about a particular identity-based community.

Comscore uses what its tags collect for its own research, reports to advertising clients and interest-based advertising, the lawsuit claims. Adobe's standard business terms also reportedly let it use and store collected data to improve its own products.

The proposed class action alleges Disney did now show a consent banner, pop-up or other notice asking for permission before the tracking began and Abdullah never agreed to it.

The legal claim

California's Invasion of Privacy Act predates the internet, but the complaint contends it covers online communications. The law makes it illegal to read someone’s messages or to help someone else do it unless everyone in the conversation agrees.

The class action contends Disney helped Adobe and Comscore read visitors' searches as they happened and that every search it sent to the two companies counts as a separate violation.

The privacy law sets damages of $5,000 per violation and does not require proof of financial harm. The lawsuit seeks that amount for each class member plus an order stopping the tracking and attorneys' fees.

What the lawsuit means for disney.com visitors

The proposed class covers people who searched disney.com while in California from Oct. 19, 2025, onward and whose search terms went to Adobe or Comscore.

As of this writing, there is no settlement, no claims process and no money available.