Shutterstock / SoulCurry – I love My Privacy Plaintiffs sued Netflix under the Video Privacy Protection Act for Netflix’s display of a subscriber’s queue and recommendation list on televisions connected to the subscriber’s account. In other words, if a household is sitting around in front of a television that accesses someone’s Netflix’s account, all of the household could view the account-holder’s queue and recommendation lists: The content of these lists, as a result are visible to family members, friends, or guests of Netflix subscribers who use a subscriber’s account to stream videos, or are in the presence of a subscriber when she is accessing her account through a Netflix-ready device. Plaintiffs contended this violated the VPPA’s prohibition on disclosure of “personally identifiable information concerning any customer” to “any person”. The district court granted Netflix’s…
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