On January 20, 2015, a New Jersey District court dismissed a multidistrict consolidated class action against a media company and an online search engine brought under the Video Privacy Protection Act ("VPPA") on behalf of children whose activities on a website were allegedly tracked. The court found that the plaintiffs could not maintain their VPPA claims because they did not establish that the information collected on the website could be used to identify specific users to the videos they watched.
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