Website Operator Opposes Certiorari Bid To Define ‘Consumer’ Under The VPPA

( December 17, 2025, 1:02 PM EST) -- WASHINGTON, D.C. — Opposing a website user’s certiorari petition over whether someone can qualify as a consumer under the Video Protection Privacy Act (VPPA) if he or she does not buy, rent or subscribe to the delivery of “video tapes or similar audiovisual materials” from a video tape service provider (VTSP), the website operator in a Dec. 16 opposition brief asked the U.S. Supreme Court to reject the petitioner’s attempt “to resurrect his effort to dramatically expand the VPPA” to apply to disclosure of information about any product or service offered by a VTSP even if it is not audio-visual in nature....