The New York Times and its sports news subsidiary, The Athletic, are facing a data privacy class action that alleges they unlawfully shared subscribers’ personal data with major technology companies without consent. The lawsuit, lodged by Bursor & Fisher and Labaton Keller Sucharow in the U.S. District Court for the District of Massachusetts, accuses the defendants of breaching the federal Video Privacy Protection Act of 1988 and the New York Video Consumer Protection Act. Legal representation for the defendants has not yet been confirmed.
For more details on this case, you can read the original article here.