Cartoon Network Unplugs Privacy Class Action Over App
Atlanta partner Jim Lamberth and associate Alan Bakowski were mentioned in an October 8 Law360
article about a U.S. district judge granting Cartoon Network a motion to dismiss a lawsuit where plaintiffs alleged the network’s mobile application disclosed users’ personal information without consent. Specifically,
the plaintiff in the suit (Ellis v. The Cartoon Network, Inc.) claimed Cartoon Network’s Android app collected users’ video viewing data and Android IDs, and sent them to data analytics company Bango Inc. The
judge, however, disagreed, stating that Android ID numbers did not qualify as “personally identifiable information” under the Video Privacy Protection Act because Bango needed to use additional information to reverse-engineer
the users’ identity. Jim and Alan represented Cartoon Network in the legal proceedings.
The firm also was mentioned in regards to this case in an October 14 Law.com article.