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IN RE HULU PRIVACY LITIGATION

  1. February 27, 2014

    Hulu Didn't Leak Data Identifying Users By Name, Judge Hears

    Hulu Inc. urged a California federal judge on Thursday to end a putative class action accusing it of violating the Video Privacy Protection Act by disclosing viewers' information to Facebook Inc. and others, saying it doesn't violate the law because the data doesn't identify users by name.

  2. January 22, 2014

    Video Privacy Act Doesn't Cover Anonymous Data, Hulu Says

    Hulu LLC on Tuesday pushed a California federal judge to scrap a putative class action accusing it of violating the Video Privacy Protection Act by disclosing viewers' information to third parties, arguing the anonymous user data it shares cannot be considered personally identifiable.

  3. January 03, 2014

    Hulu Ruling Offsets Obstacles To Privacy Damages

    A California magistrate judge recently found that Hulu LLC users do not need to demonstrate an actual injury to recover damages under the Video Privacy Protection Act, a ruling attorneys say will increase litigation under the VPPA and embolden plaintiffs to apply the holding to similar statutory privacy violations. 

  4. January 01, 2014

    Privacy Cases To Watch In 2014

    While a pair of challenges to the Federal Trade Commission's authority to regulate data security are likely to hog the spotlight in 2014, attorneys say cases against companies such as Hulu LLC, the Los Angeles Lakers and Google Inc. will also have a significant impact by testing the strength of dated privacy statutes and novel injury theories.

  5. December 19, 2013

    Hulu Says Users Weren't Hurt By Information Sharing

    Hulu LLC urged a California federal judge Thursday to toss a putative privacy class action accusing the streaming television service of wrongfully disclosing consumers' information to third parties like Facebook Inc. and comScore Inc., arguing there's no evidence that users were injured by the disclosures.

  6. December 17, 2013

    Hulu Says User Class Can't Be Certified In Privacy Row

    Hulu LLC hit back at a putative class action accusing the company of wrongfully disclosing users' information to third parties like Facebook Inc. and comScore Inc., saying Monday that a class certification motion asks the court to accept "unsupported assumptions that are contrary to the facts."

  7. November 12, 2013

    Users Bash Hulu's Push To Nix VPPA Suit For Lack Of Injury

    A putative class of Hulu LLC users on Friday urged a California federal judge to reject the company's contention that plaintiffs must allege an actual injury to collect damages under the Video Privacy Protection Act, arguing that the statute is intended to cover both tangible and intangible privacy violations.

  8. July 16, 2013

    Hulu Says Information Sharing Didn't Break Privacy Law

    Hulu LLC on Tuesday asked a California federal judge to dismiss a putative class action accusing the video streaming service of wrongfully disclosing users' information to third parties, arguing it didn't break any laws and that the plaintiffs didn't allege any actual injury.

  9. August 13, 2012

    Hulu Privacy Plaintiffs Gain Standing With High Court Action

    A California federal judge on Friday allowed a proposed class action accusing online video provider Hulu LLC of wrongfully disclosing users' information to proceed, finding that the plaintiffs had sufficient standing to bring the suit after the U.S. Supreme Court dropped a separate case that could have changed class standing requirements.

  10. June 12, 2012

    Judge Won't Toss Hulu Privacy Action, For Now

    A California federal judge on Monday refused to toss a putative class action accusing online video provider Hulu LLC of wrongfully disclosing users' information, but postponed a final ruling in light of a pending U.S. Supreme Court case that could clarify standing requirements for the class.

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