Nurse.com Gets Magistrate Judge’s Nod to Defeat Meta Pixel Suit

The operator of Nurse.com shouldn’t face a Video Privacy Protection Act suit alleging it shares customers’ information with Meta Platforms Inc. without their consent, a federal magistrate judge recommended, because the plaintiffs failed to demonstrate they have standing to sue.

Supreme Court precedent indicates that VPPA plaintiffs suing based on intangible harm must show that the injury they allegedly suffered is analogous to a harm traditionally recognized as providing a basis to sue in US courts, Magistrate Judge Robert T. Numbers II of the US District Court for the Eastern District of North Carolina said. The plaintiffs hadn’t shown that ...