As January 2025 draws to a close, five new states have taken their places in the patchwork of U.S. comprehensive privacy laws. The laws of Delaware, Iowa, Nebraska, and New Hampshire took effect on New Year’s Day, with New Jersey’s law effective two weeks later.More
Resuscitating a Dinosaur: The Second Circuit Breathes New Life into the VPPA
To date, comprehensive U.S. state privacy laws, with limited exception, do not provide private rights of action. Enterprising plaintiffs’ lawyers, however, have invoked the federal Video Privacy Protection Act (“VPPA”) with increasing frequency as an alternative method to bring individual and class action privacy-related claims against companies that disclose the viewing history of consumers who have accessed video content on their websites.More