AMC Seeks Dismissal of VPPA Class Action for Lack of Jurisdiction
AMC Networks said that the claimed sharing of a person's viewing history on the Shudder streaming service with Facebook through use of the Facebook pixel on Shudder's website "could never have occurred," AMC told the U.S. District Court for…
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the Northern District of Illinois in a motion to dismiss the class action for lack of jurisdiction (docket 1:22-cv-04857) Friday. The plaintiff accessed Shudder exclusively through her Roku device, so even if Shudder's website used the Facebook pixel, pixel could not have transmitted the plaintiff's viewing data, defendant AMC said. Counsel for the plaintiff didn't comment Monday. Video streaming services are facing an array of Video Privacy Protection Act suits (see 2210260008).