NFL Subscriber Turned Away by Supreme Court in Privacy Dispute

A subscriber to NFL+ and a National Football League newsletter failed Monday to convince the US Supreme Court to review his case alleging that the league’s use of Meta Platforms’ tracking pixel violated the Video Privacy Protection Act by disclosing his video-watching history to Facebook.

Plaintiff Brandon Hughes’s petition asked whether the VPPA prohibits such transmissions, even if an “ordinary person” wouldn’t be able to decode the information as transmitted. The US Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit, relying on its earlier decision in Solomon v. Flipps Media Inc., held that it didn’t and that it’s implausible the ...