Nick McCann reports: Hulu urged a federal judge to dismiss claims that it tells third parties what their subscribers watch without consent. In their amended class action, six Hulu subscribers said the video site “repurposed” its browser cache so a marketing analyst service called KISSmetrics could store their private data. The class also claims Hulu shared…
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Hulu Said to Disclose Users’ Viewing Habits
Nick McCann reports; A class of Hulu subscribers who claim the website discloses what they watch to third parties without their consent argued that their action should continue in San Jose’s federal court. In their amended class action complaint, six Hulu subscribers said the video site “repurposed” its browser cache so a marketing analyst service called…
Top websites put escape hatches into privacy policies
Natasha Singer and Jeremy B. Scahill report: The privacy policy for Hulu, a video-streaming service with about 9 million subscribers, opens with a declaration that the company “respects your privacy.” That respect could lapse, however, if the company is ever sold or goes bankrupt. At that point, according to a clause several screens deep in…
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”)….