CoStar Realty Information Inc. convinced a federal court to dismiss a proposed class action alleging it unlawfully shared data about its website visitors, because the operator of Apartments.com isn’t a video-tape business covered by the Video Privacy Protection Act.
The virtual tours available on Apartments.com aren’t sufficiently similar to prerecorded cassette tapes to trigger liability, and even if they were, CoStar is in the business of connecting property owners and renters, not delivering video material, the US District Court for the Eastern District of Missouri said Monday.
CoStar deployed on Apartments.com multiple snippets of code known as tracking pixels, including ...
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