Children's Lawyers Drop Privacy Suit Against Viacom Over Tracking Cookies

Attorneys for a group of children have agreed to withdraw a long-running privacy lawsuit against Viacom. The document withdrawing the case, filed with US District Court Judge Stanley Chesler in New Jersey, doesn't indicate whether any money changed hands.
The move ends a battle dating to 2012, when attorneys for a group of children alleged that Viacom and Google in 2012 violated kids' privacy with tracking cookies at Nick.com and other sites. The complaint alleged that Viacom violated the Video Privacy Protection Act by disclosing information about users' video-viewing, and that Google "illegally received” the data. That law prohibits some companies from disclosing the personally identifiable information about the videos that people view. The lawsuits also alleged "intrusion upon seclusion" -- a broad privacy concept that the appeals court described as "a type of invasion of privacy involving encroachment on a person’s reasonable expectations of solitude."