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Two recent federal district court rulings regarding the Video Privacy Protection Act (VPPA) follow the emerging trend of decisions indicating that courts are reluctant to find violations of the VPPA [...]

Can a privacy law passed in the era of videotape rentals be applied in the era of Internet streaming? Hulu, the online video provider, is about to face the test. [...]

from The Hill's Hillicon Valley blog A proposed amendment to a Senate cybersecurity bill would allow Facebook users to opt-in to automatically share which videos they have watched on Netflix [...]

Netflix has hired the firm Greenberg Traurig to lobby Congress to amend a video privacy law. The Video Privacy Protection Act was passed in 1988, after the Washington City Paper [...]

IF Netflix has its way, Facebook members in the United States may soon be able to see which of their friends and family members have just video-streamed ''Paranormal Activity'' or [...]

Many consumers have heard of the Telephone Consumer Protection Act (TCPA), the statute that prevents a company from autodialing a consumer's cell phone without his or her prior express consent. [...]

Tale of the tape. Remember the 1980s? Back then, watching a movie on demand meant visiting your local video store and renting the video tape version of the film that [...]

Tale of the tape. Remember the 1980s? Back then, watching a movie on demand meant visiting your local video store and renting the video tape version of the film that [...]

On October 8, 2014, a district court judge in Georgia dismissed with prejudice a Video Privacy Protection Act (VPPA) action against The Cartoon Network (CN), holding that the disclosure of [...]

Keywords: video protection, privacy act . In a recent seminal decision in the action In re: Hulu Privacy Litigation ('Hulu'), No. C 11- 03764 LB (N.D. Cal. filed June 17, [...]

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Another important decision has been rendered in the ongoing In re: Hulu Privacy Litigation saga pending in the United States District Court for the Northern District of California, this time [...]

On June 16, the Northern District of California denied a motion for class certification in In re Hulu Privacy Litigation, No. C 11-03764 LB, ECF No. 111. The plaintiffs in [...]

After a decision denying class certification last week, claims by Hulu users that their personal information was improperly disclosed to Facebook are limited to the individual named plaintiffs (at least [...]

On June 17, 2014, Magistrate Judge Laurel Beeler of the Northern District of California denied class certification for the proposed class of Hulu and Facebook users alleging that their personal [...]

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 company is asking U.S. District Court Judge Steven Jones in Atlanta to dismiss a lawsuit brought in March by Georgia resident Terry Locklear. She alleged that the news company's [...]

Steven B. Roosa is a Partner in our New York office. Getting a Handle on VPPA Exposure in the Wake of Hulu Given all the Video Privacy Protection Act (VPPA) [...]

On April 28, the Northern District of California granted in part and denied in part Hulu's motion for summary judgment over allegations that it violated the Video Privacy Protection Act [...]

On Monday, April 28, 2014, the Northern District of California in In Re: Hulu Privacy Litigation, No. 3:11-cv-03764-LB (M.J. Laurel Beeler), issued a summary judgment opinion under the Video Privacy [...]

An arbitration provision in the Blockbuster Online customer contract is illusory and unenforceable against a Video Privacy Protection Act plaintiff, a U.S. District Court in Texas has ruled. The plaintiff [...]

Defendants and plaintiffs in two related copyright infringement lawsuits against YouTube have reached a deal to protect the privacy of millions of YouTube watchers. This month, a New York federal […]

The chairman and ranking member of the Senate Judiciary privacy, technology, and the law subcommittee, as well as the chairman of the lull committee, have expressed concern about a House [...]

The Children's Online Privacy Protection Act ('COPPA') was enacted to place parents in control over what information is collected, used and disclosed from young children online. COPPA applies to operators [...]

A Michigan federal judge has held that plaintiffs could proceed in federal court on their claims under the Video Rental Privacy Act (VRPA), a state law akin to the federal [...]

Heard on the Hill Congress Updates the Video Privacy Protection Act On January 10, 2013, President Obama signed the Video Privacy Protection Act Amendments of 2012 (P.L. 112-258) (the 'VPPA [...]

Ilardi: The Children's Online Privacy Protection Act ('COPPA') was enacted to place parents in control over what information is collected, used and disclosed from young children online. COPPA applies to [...]

On January 10, 2013, President Obama signed into law H.R. 6671, an amendment to the Video Privacy Protection Act of 1988 (VPPA) codified at 18 U.S.C. § 2710, which will [...]

WASHINGTON -- The following information was released by the office of Virginia Rep. Bob Goodlatte: Congressman Bob Goodlatte, Chairman of the House Judiciary Committee, released the following statement after H.R. [...]

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WASHINGTON -- The following information was released by Vermont Senator Patrick Leahy: U.S. Senate Judiciary Committee Chairman Patrick Leahy (D-Vt.) welcomed the Senate's passage of legislation updating Video Privacy Protection [...]

WASHINGTON -- The following information was released by the office of Virginia Rep. Bob Goodlatte: Congressman Bob Goodlatte released the following statement regarding passage of H.R. 6671 in the House [...]

WASHINGTON -- The following information was released by Vermont Senator Patrick Leahy: The Senate Judiciary Committee Thursday overwhelmingly approved legislation authored by Chairman Patrick Leahy (D-Vt.) that updates the Video [...]

The Northern District of California recently held that a proposed class action has sufficiently stated a claim under the Video Privacy Protection Act (VPPA), 18 U.S.C. s. 2710(b)(1), against defendant [...]

WASHINGTON -- The following information was released by Minnesota Senator Al Franken: Today, U.S. Sen. Al Franken (D-Minn.), Chairman of the Judiciary Subcommittee on Privacy, Technology, and the Law, held [...]

ST. LOUIS, MO -- The following information was released by Washington University in St. Louis: By Jessica Martin Most people would rather not have their video viewing habits easily available [...]

Edited by Stuart P. Ingis and Michael A. Signorelli Additional Contributors: Emilio W. Cividanes, Tara Sugiyama Potashnik, Julia Kernochan Tama and Kelly A. DeMarchis On December 6, 2011, the House [...]

WASHINGTON -- The following information was released by the office of Virginia Rep. Bob Goodlatte: The House of Representatives passed bipartisan legislation introduced by Congressman Bob Goodlatte, Chairman of the [...]

The U.S. District Court for the Western District of Washington granted Amazon.com's request for declaratory judgment that the North Carolina Department of Revenue's (the Department) information requests for the production [...]

Netflix and Facebook have petitioned Congress to change a US 1998 privacy law that prevents the disclosure of a consumers' movie rental history. Netflix backed legislation that is currently running [...]