Judge Tosses Hulu Privacy Case

Maria Dinzeo reports:

Persuaded by Hulu that its users could not prove that it knowingly shared their private information with Facebook, a federal judge on Tuesday tossed a proposed class action claiming the online streaming service violated the Video Privacy Protection Act.

U.S. District Judge Laurel Beeler found that ultimately there is no connection between a Hulu users’ identity, sent to Facebook through a “c_user” browser cookie, and the title of the video that person had watched.

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