NFL backs Supreme Court review of privacy case against NBA

( May 2, 2025, 20:20 GMT | Official Statement) -- MLex Summary: The National Football League filed a brief in support of the US Supreme Court reviewing a case accusing the National Basketball League of disclosing the information of a user of its website in violation of the Video Privacy Protection Act. The NFL said that the issues in the case are important because of a recent onslaught of cases that seek to transform a statute designed to prohibit the public disclosure of customers’ video rental histories by brick-and-mortar stores into a sweeping tool for regulating routine data transfers that are widely used by online content providers to facilitate Internet-based advertising. “The statutory penalties imposed by the VPPA take on outsized importance when combined with the class-action mechanism, which exposes providers to massive potential liability without any showing of actual real-world harm suffered by any users,” the NFL argued.See attached file. ...