9th Circuit Affirms ESPN App User Did Not Identify Shared PII Under VPPA

Mealey's (November 30, 2017, 10:07 AM EST) -- PASADENA, Calif. — A plaintiff failed to properly plead a violation of the Video Privacy Protection Act (VPPA) by ESPN Inc., a Ninth Circuit U.S. Court of Appeals panel ruled Nov. 29, finding that user data purportedly shared by ESPN via its app did not qualify as personally identifiable information (PII) (Chad Eichenberger v. ESPN Inc., No. 15-35449, 9th Cir.)....