{"id":249314,"date":"2025-10-29T19:31:11","date_gmt":"2025-10-29T19:31:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/249314\/"},"modified":"2025-10-29T19:31:11","modified_gmt":"2025-10-29T19:31:11","slug":"nba-succeeds-in-bid-to-arbitrate-consumers-video-privacy-claims","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/249314\/","title":{"rendered":"NBA Succeeds in Bid to Arbitrate Consumers\u2019 Video-Privacy Claims"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Consumers alleging that the operator of the National Basketball Association\u2019s mobile app illegally shared their video-watching histories with marketing-technology providers must take their claims before an arbitrator.<\/p>\n<p>A provision of the arbitration agreement on the NBA App requiring consumers to engage in a pre-dispute resolution process could be enforced because it wasn\u2019t unconscionable on procedural or substantive grounds, Judge Jeanette A. Vargas of the US District Court for the Southern District of New York <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bloomberglaw.com\/public\/document\/WhalenetalvNBAPropertiesIncDocketNo125cv06125SDNYJul252025CourtDo?doc_id=X27643FTISS8G28GDING9P32SM5\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">said<\/a> Tuesday.<\/p>\n<p>Vargas granted the NBA\u2019s <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bloomberglaw.com\/public\/document\/WhalenetalvNBAPropertiesIncDocketNo125cv06125SDNYJul252025CourtDo\/1?doc_id=X266RBTBVJ487088FCSNJOU304V\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">motion<\/a> to compel arbitration and stayed the case pending the outcome of those proceedings. The league recently <a data-terminal-id=\"T3QJUGGPFHN6\" href=\"https:\/\/news.bloomberglaw.com\/litigation\/nba-defeats-revived-video-data-sharing-class-action-lawsuit\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">defeated<\/a> a proposed &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Consumers alleging that the operator of the National Basketball Association\u2019s mobile app illegally shared their video-watching histories with&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":249315,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[557],"tags":[64,63,590,85],"class_list":{"0":"post-249314","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-nba","8":"tag-au","9":"tag-australia","10":"tag-nba","11":"tag-sports"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/249314","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=249314"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/249314\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/249315"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=249314"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=249314"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=249314"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}