The Latest Trend of the Plaintiff Class Action Bar: Video Privacy Protection Act Class Action Litigation

摘要

There has been a recent spate of class action litigation filed under the Video Privacy Protection Act of 1988 (VPPA)1 against retailers of video prod-ucts.VPPA class action cases have been recently filed in the US District Court for the Northern District of Illinois against Redbox and Best Buy and against Netflix in the US District Court for the Northern District of California. These cases allege that the defendants violated the VPPA by failing to destroy protected information and seek potentially millions of dollars in statutory damages on behalf of putative classes.