{"id":1237,"date":"2026-01-27T17:01:11","date_gmt":"2026-01-27T21:01:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.duanemorris.com\/techlaw\/?p=1237"},"modified":"2026-01-27T17:01:13","modified_gmt":"2026-01-27T21:01:13","slug":"us-supreme-court-to-decide-who-qualifies-as-a-consumer-under-the-video-privacy-protection-act","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.duanemorris.com\/techlaw\/2026\/01\/27\/us-supreme-court-to-decide-who-qualifies-as-a-consumer-under-the-video-privacy-protection-act\/","title":{"rendered":"U.S. Supreme Court to Decide Who Qualifies as a &#8220;Consumer&#8221; Under the Video Privacy Protection Act"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>By <a href=\"https:\/\/www.duanemorris.com\/attorneys\/jcolinknisely.html\">J. Colin Knisely<\/a> and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.duanemorris.com\/attorneys\/michaelszullo.html\">Michael S. Zullo<\/a><br><br>On January 26, 2026, the U.S. Supreme Court granted certiorari in <em>Salazar v. Paramount Global<\/em> to resolve a growing circuit split over who qualifies as a \u201cconsumer\u201d under the Video Privacy Protection Act. The petition asks whether the VPPA protects individuals who subscribe only to nonaudiovisual content\u2014such as a free newsletter\u2014from a company that also offers video programming.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Read the full <em><a href=\"https:\/\/www.duanemorris.com\/alerts\/us_supreme_court_decide_who_qualifies_consumer_under_video_privacy_protection_act_0126.html\">Alert<\/a><\/em> on the Duane Morris LLP website. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>By J. Colin Knisely and Michael S. Zullo On January 26, 2026, the U.S. Supreme Court granted certiorari in Salazar v. Paramount Global to resolve a growing circuit split over who qualifies as a \u201cconsumer\u201d under the Video Privacy Protection Act. The petition asks whether the VPPA protects individuals who subscribe only to nonaudiovisual content\u2014such &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.duanemorris.com\/techlaw\/2026\/01\/27\/us-supreme-court-to-decide-who-qualifies-as-a-consumer-under-the-video-privacy-protection-act\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;U.S. Supreme Court to Decide Who Qualifies as a &#8220;Consumer&#8221; Under the Video Privacy Protection Act&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":6,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[],"ppma_author":[878],"class_list":["post-1237","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-infotechtelecom"],"authors":[{"term_id":878,"user_id":6,"is_guest":0,"slug":"duanemorris3","display_name":"Duane Morris","avatar_url":"https:\/\/secure.gravatar.com\/avatar\/843ff6e7a8fe5fc92109b47a45f34b6cf0ea499e6e788db23456c838b0ae6747?s=96&d=blank&r=g","0":null,"1":"","2":"","3":"","4":"","5":"","6":"","7":"","8":""}],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.duanemorris.com\/techlaw\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1237","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.duanemorris.com\/techlaw\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.duanemorris.com\/techlaw\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.duanemorris.com\/techlaw\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/6"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.duanemorris.com\/techlaw\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1237"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.duanemorris.com\/techlaw\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1237\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.duanemorris.com\/techlaw\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1237"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.duanemorris.com\/techlaw\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1237"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.duanemorris.com\/techlaw\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1237"},{"taxonomy":"author","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.duanemorris.com\/techlaw\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/ppma_author?post=1237"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}