( April 21, 2026, 3:04 PM EDT) -- WASHINGTON, D.C. — A California man requested the U.S. Supreme Court to reverse a Sixth Circuit U.S. Court of Appeals ruling that he is not a “‘consumer’” under the Video Privacy Protection Act (VPPA), arguing that the appellate court added an audiovisual limitation to the statute’s definition amid a circuit split over whether the VPPA applies to all goods or services offered by a video tape service provider (VTSP) or only to its audiovisual offerings in cases alleging that website operators disclosed users’ video-viewing activity and identifying information to third parties through tracking technologies....