Technology
May 24, 2023
Video privacy lawsuit over TikTok may be part of wave
At least 70 Video Privacy Protection Act cases were filed in the past year against companies whose websites have videos with third-party analytics tools, and more continue to be filed. The latest was filed in Los Angeles against Container Store.
The Container Store violated the Video Privacy Protection Act and is liable to each class member for $2,500, a proposed class action filed in Los Angeles alleges.
The complaint says that the container retailer’s e-commerce website uses TikTok’s Pixel code to report visitors’ personally identifiable information to TikTok’s parent company, ByteDance Ltd., which is partly owned by the Chinese government. The submission of user data is trigge...
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