New Ruling on Social Media Tracking Reveals New Privacy Risks: What Your School Should Know About the Data It Collects

A recent privacy rights development could have major implications for any school or non-profit that has a website, as a Michigan federal court gave the greenlight for a video privacy protection lawsuit to proceed against nonprofit Hillsdale College over its use of webpage trackers. The October 17 decision is one of the first cases to apply the Video Privacy Protection Act (VPPA) in the context of website tracking software. Allowing the lawsuit to advance under the VPPA past the pleading stage…
By: Fisher Phillips