WORLDTECHSupreme Court appears open to wider video privacy law in Paramount case
What happened
He wants to bring a class action seeking up to $2,500 per person. He warned sites might put videos behind consent walls.
The US Supreme Court appeared ready to side with a man who says a Paramount website shared his video history with Facebook. Paramount’s case did not seem to persuade them, Bloomberg Law reported.
October 18, 2026 - 11:31 am The US Supreme Court appeared ready to side with a man who says a Paramount website shared his video history with Facebook. Paramount Global on Wednesday, CNET reported .
He then watched videos on the site while logged into Facebook.
A Meta tracking tool on the site, known as the Pixel, sent details of those videos to Facebook without his consent, he says. His claim rests on the Video Privacy Protection Act.
Congress passed it in 1988 after a journalist published the video rental history of Supreme Court nominee Robert Bork. Paramount’s lawyer, Paul Clement, said Salazar’s reading would turn a law about video rentals into a sweeping internet privacy regime.