Envato Subscribers Advance Privacy Suit Over Meta Data Sharing

Media-assets provider Envato Pty Ltd. must face a proposed class action alleging it shared the video-viewing histories of subscribers with Meta Platforms Inc. in violation of the Video Privacy Protection Act.

Lead plaintiffs Stephen Plotsker and Michael Kleemann had standing to sue in federal court and adequately pleaded the elements of their VPPA claims, Judge Maame Ewusi-Mensah Frimpong said.

Frimpong denied Envato’s motion to dismiss Tuesday, also finding that the Australia-based company failed to show that its home country was a more proper forum for the lawsuit.

The plaintiffs alleged that Envato incorporated tracking software from Meta’s Facebook ...