Google, Apple Beat Suits Over Retention of Video-Watching Data

Google LLC and Apple Inc. on Wednesday defeated proposed class actions alleging they retained information about the video-viewing histories of their users without consent in violation of video-privacy laws in New York and Minnesota.

The state statutes at issue in the separate lawsuits, the New York Video Consumer Privacy Act and the Minnesota Video Privacy Law, didn’t provide a private right of action for illegal retention of personal information, the US Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit said in an unsigned opinion, affirming lower court dismissals of the suits.

Burke Minahan alleged that Google, and Lucila Baptiste alleged that ...