That’s all, folks: A Georgia federal judge has booted a proposed class action against The Cartoon Network Inc. that alleged privacy violations, ruling the personal information disclosed was too general to identify individuals.

U.S. District Judge Thomas Thrash Jr. of the U.S. District Court for the Northern District of Georgia on Oct. 8 granted the Cartoon Network’s motion to dismiss, finding that plaintiff Mark Ellis’ privacy was not violated under the federal Video Privacy Protection Act by the network’s collection of data about his video choices and transmission of it to a web data analytics company.

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