PokerGo.com Privacy Violations

We are currently investigating PokerGo.com for violations of The Video Privacy Protection Act (VPPA), a federal law that protects your privacy when you watch videos on a website you subscribe to. It prohibits a "video tape service provider" from knowingly disclosing your personally identifiable information (PII) to any person. PII includes information that identifies you as having requested or obtained specific video materials or services from a video tape service provider. See Feldman v. Star Tribune Media Co. LLC, 659 F. Supp. 3d 1006 (D. Minn. 2023).  

If the website you subscribe to and watch videos from shares your video-watching history with a third party, it may be violating the VPPA. For example, if a website uses a tool like Facebook Pixel to track your actions and report those actions to Facebook, it could be considered a violation of the VPPA. See Belozerov v. Gannett Co., 646 F. Supp. 3d 310 (D. Mass. 2022). 

The information shared with Facebook could include your identity, the video content name, the video URL, and your Facebook ID. This information is not anonymized and is tied to unique identifiers that track specific Facebook users. 

In any case, if you believe that a website is violating your privacy by sharing your video-watching history with a third party, you may have a claim under the VPPA. You could potentially recover actual damages, punitive damages, reasonable attorneys' fees and other litigation costs, and other appropriate relief. 

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