A man has filed a lawsuit against the Disney Channel application on the Roku streaming device, Courthouse News Service reports. In the proposed federal class-action, James Robinson says The Walt Disney Company violated the Video Privacy Protection Act by sharing information on users’ viewing habits with third parties without users’ consent. Robinson claims Disney sent the data to analytics company Adobe in order to “form comprehensive profiles about a person’s entire digital life. These profiles can then be used for targeted advertising, sold as a commodity to other data brokers or both,” the complaint states.
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