The U.S. Supreme Court affords the best way of resolving a circuit split concerning the scope of the Video Privacy Protection Act (VPPA), the NBA said Wednesday in a reply to plaintiff Michael Salazar, who opposed the league's request for the high court to review a 2nd U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals decision.
Roku asked a federal court Monday to dismiss several counts in a case where Michigan alleged the company collected minors' personal information without parental consent or knowledge.
Plaintiff Michael Salazar opposed the NBA’s request for the U.S. Supreme Court to review a decision from the 2nd U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals that the basketball league said unfairly expanded the scope of the Video Privacy Protection Act (VPPA). Salazar, a consumer, argued that the complaint in the writ for certiorari is not the one in question anymore.
A court dismissed a class action lawsuit against the NFL that alleged the league violated the Video Privacy Protection Act (VPPA) by employing the Meta-tracking pixel without user notice and consent. Issued Friday, the summary order ruled that an "ordinary person" could not determine a user's Facebook ID through the pixel's transmission.
NBCUniversal Media (NBCU) cited a May 1 appeals court ruling that the Video Privacy Protection Act (VPPA) applied only to the disclosure of information that would allow an ordinary person to learn a specific individual's video-watching history as reasoning for a district court to dismiss a VPPA case against it (see 2505010046).
A federal judge tossed a Video Privacy Protection Act (VPPA) suit against Amazon on Tuesday, ruling that the plaintiffs didn't state claims alleging true violations of the statute. Judge James Robart granted Amazon's motion to dismiss, agreeing that there were no plausible allegations that Prime members' personally identifiable information (PII) was actually disclosed to company affiliates.
A subscriber to The Onion hit the satirical news site with a class-action complaint on Friday, alleging that it deployed a tracking pixel that transmitted his personally identifiable information to third parties without prior knowledge or consent, which violates the Video Privacy Protection Act (VPPA).
A fourth amended class action complaint was filed Friday in a case alleging NBCUniversal Media (NBCU) violated the Video Privacy Protection Act (VPPA) through its use of the Meta tracking pixel. The case, Golden v. NBCUniversal Media, was previously dismissed when the U.S. District Court for Southern New York ruled that the plaintiff did not count as a "consumer" under the Act, but changed its mind following the 2nd Circuit Court of Appeals' ruling in a VPPA case in October (see 2501100009).
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Two amicus briefs were filed in the U.S. Supreme Court on Friday in support of the NBA in a Video Privacy Protection Act case, including one from the NFL and the other a joint amicus brief from the National Retail Federation (NRF) and Interactive Advertising Bureau (IAB). The briefs asked the Supreme Court to grant cert in NBA v. Salazar and reverse the 2nd U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals' ruling.