Warner Bros. Discovery (Max/HBO)

Corporate parent of HBO Max (branded 'Max' from 2023), documented elsewhere in this tracker. Paramount Skydance completed its acquisition of Warner Bros. Discovery on October 6, 2026 (the combined company was renamed Skydance Corporation), so the service's ultimate owner has changed. The parent-level note worth recording is that streaming services sit squarely within the Video Privacy Protection Act, which provides statutory damages without proof of harm - the reason this category generates so much litigation. WBD has also repeatedly restructured (a December 2024 split into two divisions, an abandoned 2025 separation plan, then the 2026 sale) and renamed its streaming product, and such reorganisations can move subscriber data between corporate entities, typically under privacy-policy terms that permit transfers in corporate transactions rather than fresh consent.

• Severity
• Evidence tierUnassigned
• Claims confirmed
• Last verified2026-08-04

Case status. Private litigation; no sources are on file yet, so no legal tier is assigned.

Primary source. None recorded — Unverified - heuristic first draft.

Arbitration

Same as Max/HBO Max row.

Data sharing

This is the CORPORATE PARENT of Max/HBO Max, already documented in the Home Security & Entertainment tab — no additional corporate-level finding independently confirmed this pass beyond what's noted there.

Contacts

Privacy contact. Not recorded.

Legal notice. Not verified this pass. If publicly traded: SEC Form 10-K cover page gives the official corporate address; the Secretary of State business-entity search in the state of incorporation gives the registered agent, which must accept service. If private: the state registered agent is usually the only reliable route.

Mailing address. Not recorded.