"Michael Salazar, a California man who watched videos on a website that covers college sports, wants to use the Video Privacy Protection Act to file a class action lawsuit against Paramount Global, the owner of 247Sports.com. Salazar argues the law bars Paramount from sharing his Facebook ID and video-watching history to Meta to create targeted advertising in his feed. (Salazar used his 247Sports.com digital subscription to view videos while logged into his Facebook account.)"
"Paramount argues Salazar is suing to get a "massive windfall" by transforming a "Blockbuster-era statute" about video rental history into a ban against targeted internet advertising. Any content Salazar viewed was available, for free, to any user of the Internet, Paramount's lawyers wrote in a filing, making 247Sports "a completely different business from renting video cassette tapes.""
The Supreme Court agreed to review whether the 1988 Video Privacy Protection Act applies to digital videos watched on a free website after a lower court ruled the law cannot be used to sue a sports website for sharing a user's video-watching history with Facebook. The statute was enacted after a journalist obtained a Supreme Court nominee's rental list and imposes penalties on any "video tape service provider" who discloses customer information without consent. Michael Salazar seeks class-action relief against Paramount Global, alleging 247Sports shared his Facebook ID and viewing history with Meta for targeted advertising. Federal appeals courts are divided on whether the law covers online free-access video.
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