{"id":209311,"date":"2026-02-02T16:41:00","date_gmt":"2026-02-02T21:41:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/2026\/02\/02\/u-s-supreme-court-agrees-to-review-consumer-under-federal-privacy-law-orrick-herrington-sutcliffe-llp\/"},"modified":"2026-02-02T17:55:12","modified_gmt":"2026-02-02T22:55:12","slug":"u-s-supreme-court-agrees-to-review-consumer-under-federal-privacy-law-orrick-herrington-sutcliffe-llp","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/2026\/02\/02\/u-s-supreme-court-agrees-to-review-consumer-under-federal-privacy-law-orrick-herrington-sutcliffe-llp\/","title":{"rendered":"U.S. Supreme Court agrees to review \u2018consumer\u2019 under federal privacy law | Orrick, Herrington &#038; Sutcliffe LLP"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.jdsupra.com\/legalnews\/u-s-supreme-court-agrees-to-review-1207388\/\">U.S. Supreme Court agrees to review \u2018consumer\u2019 under federal privacy law | Orrick, Herrington &#038; Sutcliffe LLP<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.jdsupra.com\/legalnews\/u-s-supreme-court-agrees-to-review-1207388\/\">https:\/\/www.jdsupra.com\/legalnews\/u-s-supreme-court-agrees-to-review-1207388\/<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Publish Date: <a href=\"publish_date]\">2026-02-02 16:41:00<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Source Domain: <a href=\"www.jdsupra.com\">www.jdsupra.com<\/a><\/p>\n<p>On January 26, the U.S. Supreme Court granted a petition for a writ of certiorari in a case that turns on how the term \u201cconsumer\u201d is defined under the Video Privacy Protection Act (VPPA). The ultimate question for the justices will be whether the VPPA\u2019s definition of \u201cconsumer\u201d applies to someone subscribing to all goods or services from a video tape service provider, or if it only applies to someone subscribing to audiovisual goods or services (from a video tape service provider). The case\u2019s outcome could implicate digital privacy and commercial concerns for businesses offering video streaming and content services.<\/p>\n<p>The dispute arose after the U.S. Court of Appeals for the 6th Circuit interpreted the VPPA to require plaintiffs to subscribe specifically to audiovisual goods or services to be considered \u201cconsumers,\u201d a position later adopted by the U.S. Court of Appeals for the D.C. Circuit. This caused a rift between the appellate courts \u2014 the 6th Circuit and the D.C. Circuit narrowed the definition of \u201cconsumer\u201d to apply to someone subscribing to audiovisual goods or services, which the petitioners assert is wrong, while the 2nd and 7th circuits held that all goods and services would apply to the definition of \u201cconsumer.\u201d The Supreme Court agreed to hear the case and weigh in on the interpretation of the law.<\/p>\n<p>[View source.]<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.jdsupra.com\/legalnews\/u-s-supreme-court-agrees-to-review-1207388\/\">Source<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>U.S. Supreme Court agrees to review \u2018consumer\u2019 under federal privacy law | Orrick, Herrington &#038;&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":209312,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/jdsupra-static.s3.amazonaws.com\/profile-images\/og.13091_35.jpg","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[16],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-209311","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-privacy"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/209311"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=209311"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/209311\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":209313,"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/209311\/revisions\/209313"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/209312"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=209311"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=209311"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=209311"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}