HousingWire reports:
Redfin and Zillow are at the center of two video privacy suits that were filed on June 25 in the U.S. District Court for the Southern District of California.
In two separate lawsuits, plaintiff Guillermo Mata accuses the real estate companies of violating the Video Privacy Protection Act and the California Invasion of Privacy Act by allegedly sending consumers’ personally identifiable data — including names and email addresses — to third-party firms such as Facebook parent Meta and Google parent Alphabet after they viewed agent-created video home tours.
The suit against Zillow lists “Reddit, Inc., Meta Platforms, Inc. (‘Meta’), Microsoft Corporation, Alphabet, Inc., and Snap, Inc. (Snapchat),” as alleged recipients of this data, while the Redfin suit also names Oracle Corp. as a third-party recipient of user data.
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