WASHINGTON – The Supreme Court will decide whether a 1988 privacy law spurred by the disclosure of a Supreme Court nominee’s video rental history should be applied to digital videos watched on a free website.
The court on Jan. 26 agreed to review a lower court's ruling that the Video Privacy Protection Act can't be used to sue a sports website for sharing a user's video-watching history with Facebook.
After President Ronald Reagan nominated Robert Bork to the high court in 1987, a journalist obtained from his local video store a list of films he’d rented.
Congress responded by creating stiff penalties for any “video tape service provider” who discloses personal information about their customers without consent.
Michael Salazar, a California man who watched videos on a website that covers college sports, wants to use the Video Privacy Protection Act to file a class action lawsuit against Paramount Global, the owner of 247Sports.com.
