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Choose Privacy Week 2012: The Perils of Social Reading
Document Type
Blog Posting
Language
English (en)
Publication Date
2012
Publication Title
Intellectual Freedom Blog
Abstract
Sharing, we are told, is cool. At the urging of Facebook and Netflix, the House of Representatives recently passed a bill to “update” an obscure 1988 law known as the Video Privacy Protection Act (“VPPA”). Facebook and Netflix wanted to modernize this law from the VHS era, because its protection of video store records stood in the way of sharing movie recommendations among friends online. The law would have allowed companies to obtain a single consent to automatically share all movies viewed on Facebook and other social networks forever. The bill stalled in the Senate after a feisty hearing before Senator Franken, though some modernization of our video privacy law is inevitable.
Keywords
Privacy, Social Reading, Digital Rights, Data Collection, Surveillance, Online Privacy, Consumer Protection, Internet Law, Technology Ethics, Public Libraries
Publication Citation
Deborah Caldwell-Stone & Neil M. Richards, Choose Privacy Week 2012: The Perils of Social Reading, Intellectual Freedom Blog (May 2, 2012), https://www.oif.ala.org/choose-privacy-week-2012-the-perils-of-social-reading/
Repository Citation
Richards, Neil M. and Caldwell-Stone, Deborah, "Choose Privacy Week 2012: The Perils of Social Reading" (2012). Scholarship@WashULaw. 616.
https://openscholarship.wustl.edu/law_scholarship/616