Maria Dinzeo reports: Persuaded by Hulu that its users could not prove that it knowingly shared their private information with Facebook, a federal judge on Tuesday tossed a proposed class action claiming the online streaming service violated the Video Privacy Protection Act. U.S. District Judge Laurel Beeler found that ultimately there is no connection between…
Category: Breaches
Appellate Courts Being Drawn Into VPPA Fray
Christin McMeley, John D. Seiver and Bryan Thompson of David Wright Tremaine write: Last week the Third and Eleventh Circuit Courts of Appeals assigned case numbers to the appeals of In re Nickelodeon Privacy Litigation and Locklear v. Dow Jones & Co., Inc., two recently dismissed class actions in which plaintiffs alleged violations of the Video Privacy Protection Act (“VPPA”)….
Andreas Lubitz and doctors’ “duty to warn”
I wish the talking heads on TV commenting on doctors’ “duty to warn” would shut up if they don’t know what they’re talking about. Of course, they generally don’t realize that the information they’re giving out is legally incorrect. And so I listened to a talking head firmly assert that Lubitz’s doctor had a duty…
Google loses court battle on web snooping, opening doors to privacy law suits
Oscar Williams-Grut reports: Google could face a wave of privacy lawsuits in the UK after three people won the right to sue the search giant for snooping on their web browsing. The search giant had sought to block attempts by three Brits to sue the company over the monitoring of their web browsing without consent….