TED Loses Bid to Dismiss Video Privacy Class Suit in New York

TED Foundation failed to convince a federal New York judge to dismiss a proposed Video Privacy Protection Act class suit stemming from the use of third party trackers from MixPanel and others.

The data that TED allegedly shared with MixPanel, Leanplum, and OpenWeb—a user’s name and a video title—is sufficient to state that the video education platform shares personally identifiable information linked to video viewing history, Judge Dale E. Ho of the US District Court for the Southern District of New York said Tuesday.

Ho acknowledged that the Second Circuit has said it shut the door on Pixel related VPPA ...