Legal Opinion
Mark Ellis v. The Cartoon Network, Inc.
Court of Appeals for the Eleventh Circuit
Decided October 9, 2015No. 14-15046PublishedCited by 42 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
JORDAN, Circuit Judge:
This appeal from the dismissal of a complaint presents two issues of first impression concerning the , Video Privacy Protection Act, 18 U.S.C. § 2710. First, who is a “subscriber” (and therefore a “consumer”) under the Act? Second, what exactly is the “personally identifiable information” protected by the Act? We conclude that a person who - downloads and uses a free mobile application on his smartphone to view freely available content, without more, is not a “subscriber” (and therefore not a “consumer”) under the VPPA. Given our ruling, we leave for another day the…
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