The New Jersey Ruling on re: Nickelodeon Consumer Privacy Litigation, MDL number 2443 suggests that there will be a decline in the “popularity” of VPPA suits, the Law360 article “Google, Viacom Ruling Limits Scope of Video Privacy Actions” reports. In the article, Marc Zwillinger talks about the decision’s ability to set precedence for future cases because it “adopts a very common-sense understanding of the VPPA – that specific information alleged to be disclosed to make out a violation of the VPPA be information that, without more, is akin to a name.”
