In a victory for video-streaming service Hulu, a federal judge has ruled that the company did not violate the Video Privacy Protection Act (VPPA), MediaPost reports. U.S. District Court Judge Laurel Beeler awarded Hulu a summary judgement, noting the company likely didn’t realize Facebook could link Hulu users with the videos they watched, the report states. “There is no evidence that Hulu knew that Facebook might combine a Facebook user’s identity,” Beeler wrote, “with the watch-page address to yield ‘personally identifiable information.’”
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