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Video Privacy Protection Act

Court Finds Hulu Did Not “Knowingly” Disclose PII in Violation of VPPA, Grants Summary Judgment

April 3, 2015 By Derin Dickerson and Privacy, Cyber & Data Strategy Team

Ending a four-year battle that has helped define the parameters of the Video Privacy Protection Act’s (VPPA) application to new technologies, on March 31, 2015, Northern District of California Magistrate Judge Laurel Beeler dismissed with prejudice the In re: Hulu Privacy Litigation. In doing so, Judge Beeler found that there was simply no evidence that […]

Filed Under: Privacy Litigation Tagged With: Big Data, Video Privacy Protection Act, VPPA

Privacy Partner Dominique Shelton Authors Privacy Advisor Article on Hulu VPPA Case

June 20, 2014 By Privacy, Cyber & Data Strategy Team

Dominique Shelton, partner in Alston and Bird’s Privacy & Data Security practice and member of the Litigation and Trial Practice group, authored an article appearing on June 19 in International Association of Privacy Professionals’ (IAPP) Privacy Advisor titled, “Court Denies Class-Action in Hulu Case, But There’s More.” In the article, Shelton discusses the Hulu consumer class-action case […]

Filed Under: Data Security Tagged With: Behavioral Tracking, Class Action, International Association of Privacy Professionals (IAPP), Video Privacy Protection Act

Northern District Court Grants Summary Judgment in Favor of Hulu as to the comScore Claims But Denies Summary Judgment as to the Facebook claims

April 29, 2014 By Privacy, Cyber & Data Strategy Team

Any company that hosts videos on their websites and uses analytics or includes a “Like” button or other social plug-in should pay very close attention to yesterday’s decision in In re Hulu Privacy Litigation Case case. As per Alston & Bird’s previous advisory, in the Hulu case, the named plaintiffs allege that Hulu wrongfully disclosed their […]

Filed Under: Privacy Litigation Tagged With: Behavioral Tracking, Video Privacy Protection Act

Northern District of California to Decide in the In re Hulu Privacy Litigation Whether Disclosing Anonymized Data to a Web Analytics Company and Use of the Facebook “Like” Button Violate the Video Privacy Protection Act

February 28, 2014 By Kimberly Chemerinsky

Any company that has a website that (a) contains videos, (b) uses a third-party analytics company to maintain metrics on page views and/or (c) allows users to “like” videos on the site should pay very close attention to the In re Hulu Privacy Litigation pending in the United States District Court of Northern California. In […]

Filed Under: Advisories, Legislation, Online Privacy Tagged With: Behavioral Tracking, Tracking, Video Privacy Protection Act

2013 Ends with a Bang – Northern District of California Court Denies Hulu’s Summary Judgment Motion in Video Tracking Case

January 7, 2014 By Privacy, Cyber & Data Strategy Team

Many companies host videos on their websites or via mobile apps. They often use analytic companies/vendors to help them track whether the videos are in fact viewed and other information about site usage. This is precisely the issue at the core of the case titled In re Hulu Privacy Litigation, pending in the Northern District […]

Filed Under: Privacy Tagged With: Behavioral Tracking, Tracking, Video Privacy Protection Act

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