NBC Argues ‘Ordinary Person’ Test in Video Privacy Oral Argument

A consumer struggled to convince a federal appeals court Friday that her suit against NBCUniversal Media LLC for disclosing her video-watching information to Meta Platforms Inc. in violation of the Video Privacy Protection Act should be revived.

Sherhonda Golden alleged in the proposed class action that NBCUniversal incorporated a tracking tool from Meta’s Facebook unit on its website, allowing the social media company to collect information arising from user interactions there, including their Facebook IDs and the titles of videos they watched.

At issue before a panel of the US Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit was the status ...