Consumers Advance Hearst TV Suit Over Info Sharing With Google

Multimedia company Hearst Television Inc. must face a proposed class action alleging it shared information about videos viewed by users of its apps with Google Inc. and Braze Inc. in violation of the Video Privacy Protection Act, a federal court ruled.

Michele Saunders and Richard Hayden adequately pleaded that Hearst was a “video tape service provider” and that they were “consumers” under the VPPA, Judge Richard G. Stearns of the US District Court for the District of Massachusetts said Thursday.

They also adequately pleaded that the information disclosed was personally identifiable ...