An appeals court narrowed liability under the Video Privacy Protection Act (VPPA) Thursday, ruling it only applied to the disclosure of information that would allow an ordinary person to learn a specific individual's video-watching history.
Two recent Circuit Court of Appeals cases dealing with the Video Privacy Protection Act (VPPA) of 1988, combined with the 2nd Circuit’s ruling in NBA v. Salazar from October, may have set the stage for a future ruling from the U.S. Supreme Court over whether old laws can be expanded and constitutionally interpreted to apply to new technologies, privacy lawyers say. Others say the circuit split may be resolve by Congress revisiting the statute.
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The U.S. District Court for Northern California on Wednesday threw out a privacy suit against video game publisher Ubisoft on the grounds that the display of a cookie banner and creating an account that required accepting the terms of use and privacy policy meant that Ubisoft was granted consent to use pixel tracking and collect data on users.
The 6th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals agreed Thursday with a district court decision and dismissed a case alleging violations of the 1988 Video Privacy Protection Act (VPPA), taking a narrow view of what it means to be a "consumer." However, one of the three judges, Rachel Bloomekatz, issued a dissent from most of the decision.
Despite granting a dismissal of several claims, the U.S. District Court for Northern California refused to toss allegations of violations of the Video Privacy Protection Act (VPPA) in its ruling Monday in a class-action case against streaming service Mubi.
The 7th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals took a broad view of what it means to be a videotape service provider under the Video Privacy Protection Act (VPPA) on Friday in an opinion in case 24-1290. The plaintiffs allege the transmission of their personal information from a website where users can watch old TV shows to Facebook is in violation of the VPPA.
The 9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals took a narrow view of what it means to be a videotape service provider under the Video Privacy Protection Act (VPPA) in an opinion Thursday in a case where a cinema shared a customer's information with Facebook. In the case, 23-3832, plaintiff Paul Osheske claimed Landmark Theater violated the VPPA.
NEW YORK CITY -- U.S. data privacy regulation is “constantly evolving,” said Daniel Rosenzweig, a privacy attorney and founder of DBR Data Privacy Solutions. Regulators are focused on whether companies are operationalizing legal requirements and honoring their public statements, he told the Interactive Advertising Bureau's Signal Shift event Thursday.
The NBA filed a petition for a writ of certiorari on Friday asking the U.S. Supreme Court to review a decision from the 2nd U.S. Court of Appeals that the basketball league said unfairly expanded the scope of the Video Privacy Protection Act (VPPA) of 1988.