America’s Test Kitchen agrees to settlement in Facebook data privacy class action

America’s Test Kitchen settlement overview: 

• Who: America’s Test Kitchen reached a settlement in a Facebook data privacy class action lawsuit. 
• Why: America’s Test Kitchen allegedly disclosed consumers’ personal information to Facebook via Meta Pixel, violating the Video Privacy Protection Act.
• Where: The America’s Test Kitchen Facebook lawsuit was settled in federal court in Massachusetts.

America’s Test Kitchen reached a settlement in a Facebook data privacy class action lawsuit claiming it shared users’ personal information with Facebook without their consent.

The personal information sharing violates the Video Privacy Protection Act (VPPA), the lawsuit claimed.

The America’s Test Kitchen settlement includes $300,000 to class counsel and $7,092 in litigation costs. The parties asked the court to approve Andrea R. Dudinsky of Kroll Settlement Administration LLC as the settlement administrator.

The class includes subscribers of America’s Test Kitchen who requested or obtained a video on the company’s website while being a Facebook account holder between July 13, 2020, and Feb. 14.

The objection and/or notice of intent must be mailed by May 16. A final approval hearing is set for June 14.

America’s Test Kitchen must remove Meta Pixels from website in 45 days, settlement says

America’s Test Kitchen must remove all Meta Pixels embedded on its website in the United States within 45 days of a preliminary approval and promise it will not possess user personal information as defined by VPPA.

The company also promised to stop using Meta Pixel on any of its websites in the United States that includes video content, according to the settlement.

Settlement class members cannot opt out of the settlement because they do not release claims for monetary damages and America’s Test Kitchen is only agreeing to remedial and injunctive relief.

America’s Test Kitchen was accused of selling Cook’s Illustrated subscriber information to third parties in a 2019 class action lawsuit against the magazine publisher.

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The plaintiff is represented by Hank Bates, Lee Lowther and Courtney Ross Brown of Carney Bates & Pulliam PLLC along with Elizabeth Ryan of Bailey & Glasser LLP.

The America’s Test Kitchen settlement class action lawsuit is Adams v. America’s Test Kitchen LP, et al., Case No. 5:23-cv-00883, in the U.S. District Court for the District of Massachusetts.

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