Originally filed in June 2024 in the U.S. District Court for the Southern District of California, Mata accused Redfin of violating the Video Privacy Protection Act (VPPA) and the California Invasion of Privacy Act (CIPA) by allegedly sending consumers’ personally identifiable data — including names and email addresses — to third-party firms such as Facebook parent Meta and Google parent Alphabet after they viewed agent-created video home tours.
According to the suit, the data was sent to Reddit Inc., Meta Platforms Inc., Microsoft Corp., Alphabet Inc., Snap Inc. (Snapchat) and Oracle Corp.
The suit alleges that Redfin “uses third-party code to track prerecorded videos its subscribers watch and sends that data to its third-party code vendors along with subscribers’ personally identifiable information (PII), all without its subscribers’ valid consent.”
In October, Redfin filed a motion to compel arbitration or dismiss the case. A few weeks later, Mata and Redfin informed the court that the plaintiff had agreed to “individual binding arbitration of his claims against” the brokerage. This arbitration was the result of Mata acknowledging that “an arbitration agreement was formed between the parties and agrees that Plaintiff’s claims fall within the scope of that agreement but does not waive any remaining challenges to arbitrability.”
As a result, the suit was stayed at the end of October 2024. Mata’s notice of voluntary dismissal does not provide any information as to why he chose to dismiss. He also has an identical suit pending against Zillow.
Redfin did not return HousingWire‘s request for comment.
