The Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals has upheld an earlier decision by U.S. District Court Judge Edward Davila to dismiss a potential class-action lawsuit that alleged Netflix violated the Video Privacy Protection Act (VPPA), MediaPost reports. The appeals court decided Netflix did not violate the VPPA “by displaying information about subscribers' movie-watching history to their friends, families and guests,” the report states. Meanwhile, ZDNet reports on the Seventh Circuit Court of Appeals’ recent decision overturning “a district court that had tossed a class-action lawsuit against Neiman Marcus over a 2014 data breach.” Editor’s Note: IAPP VP of Research and Education Omer Tene recently wrote about the Neiman Marcus case for Privacy Tracker.
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