Wendy Davis reports: Hulu says in new court papers that it’s entitled to prevail in a lawsuit accusing the company of violating a federal privacy law by allegedly sharing users’ personal information with Facebook. The lawsuit centers on allegations that Hulu wrongly shared information with Facebook via the “Like” button, which loads automatically when users…
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Hulu Users Can’t Bring Privacy Class-Action
Wendy Davis reports: In a significant win for Hulu, a federal judge ruled today that a group of consumers who are suing the company for alleged privacy violations can’t proceed as a class. The consumers say the online video company violated the Video Privacy Protection Act by allegedly disclosing the names of the programs they…
Judge Splits Difference in Hulu Privacy Case
Nick McCann reports: Hulu may have illegally disclosed viewer data via Facebook “likes,” a federal magistrate judge ruled in an ongoing class action. Joseph Garvey is lead plaintiff in “Hulu Privacy Litigation” which claims Hulu “repurposed” its browser cache to let marketing-analysis services store users’ private data. Read more on Courthouse News. See also MediaPost‘s…
Hulu must face privacy lawsuit, U.S. judge rules
Jonathan Stempel of Reuters reports: Hulu has failed to persuade a federal judge to dismiss a lawsuit accusing the video streaming service of illegally sharing users’ viewing history with Facebook Inc and business metrics company comScore Inc. In San Francisco on Friday, U.S. Magistrate Judge Laurel Beeler rejected Hulu’s argument that viewers needed to show…