7th Circuit Revives MeTV VPPA Suit, Finds Website Users Are ‘Subscribers’

( April 9, 2025, 9:42 AM EDT) -- CHICAGO — Reversing a trial court’s dismissal of a Video Privacy Protection Act (VPPA) putative class claim over the operator of MeTV sharing website users’ online viewing histories with Facebook, a Seventh Circuit U.S. Court of Appeals panel concluded that the plaintiffs qualify as “subscribers” or “consumers” under the act because they provided something of value — their personally identifiable information (PII) — in exchange for a subscription to the website....