Major League Baseball Advanced Media LP defeated three lawsuits alleging it shared the video-watching histories of its website and app users with Meta Platforms Inc. and Snap Inc. in violation of the Video Privacy Protection Act.
Judge Gregory H. Woods of the US District Court for the Southern District of New York adopted a magistrate judge’s report on Wednesday recommending that the lawsuits be tossed out because the information transmitted to third parties via pixels on the MLB website and app wasn’t covered by the VPPA definition of personally identifiable information.
Magistate Judge Gabriel W. Gorenstein relied in …