Groupon Photo Use Suit Properly Denied Class Status: 7th Circuit

Groupon Inc. users can’t sue the company as a class for using their Instagram images without consent, the Seventh Circuit affirmed Dec. 18.

Identifying users by their Instagram usernames is too complicated to do on a classwide basis, Judge Amy J. St. Eve wrote for the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Seventh Circuit.

Christine Dancel, who went by the username “meowchristine,” sued Groupon after it shared a picture she took of herself at a restaurant on Instagram and tagged with the restaurant’s name.

Groupon used the picture and shared her Instagram username without her consent in violation of the ...