The New York Times and its sports news subsidiary, The Athletic, were hit with a data privacy class action on Monday that claimed they illegally siphoned subscribers’ personal data to Big Tech companies without their permission.
The complaint, filed by Bursor & Fisher and Labaton Keller Sucharow in the U.S. District Court for the District of Massachusetts, alleged that the Times violated the federal Video Privacy Protection Act of 1988 and the New York Video Consumer Protection Act by sharing consumers’ personally identifiable information with third parties. Counsel has not yet appeared for the defendants.