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Oct 16, 2026
Áine CainHOST
Like, I don't, I don't really see that as, like, a big deal.
Kevin GreenleeHOST
It sparked outrage, and it caused Congress to pass a law, which they called the Video Privacy Protection Act.
Áine CainHOST
What was he watching? [laughs]
Kevin GreenleeHOST
Nothing bad.
HammackGUEST
Mr.
HammackGUEST
Chief Justice, and may it please the Court, outraged by the disclosure of one person's video watching history, Congress enacted the Video Privacy Protection Act.
HammackGUEST
In Section B1, the act provides for civil liability when a videotape service provider knowingly discloses personally identifiable information concerning any consumer of such provider.
HammackGUEST
The act defines three of those terms.
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HammackGUEST
It aligns with ordinary meaning all over the statute.
HammackGUEST
Second, I want to address the, the point that my friend on the other side made regarding this shift in the number of cases brought happening, you know, a decade or so ago.
HammackGUEST
And that shift did not occur because plaintiffs suddenly woke up one day and discovered the Video Privacy Protection Act.
HammackGUEST
It occurred because of the advent of pixel technology, this technology that all kinds of businesses started embedding in their websites that is automatically tar- tracking and disclosing all sorts of personally identifiable information about you, including the personally identifiable information specifically defined in this statute.
Jim LoveHOST
In 1987, a newspaper published Supreme Court nominee Robert Bork's family video rental history.
Jim LoveHOST
Congress responded the following year with the Video Privacy Protection Act, restricting disclosure of identifiable viewing records without consent.
Jim LoveHOST
Now, almost 40 years later, a case before the US Supreme Court concerns something those lawmakers couldn't have anticipated, the Metapixel.
Jim LoveHOST
That pixel is a tracking code that websites use to measure visitor activity and support targeted advertising.
Jace DenmanHOST
A ruling by the justices could resolve a lower court split over how a consumer qualifies for the law pro- law's protection consumer advocates, or s- for the law's protection, excuse me.
Jace DenmanHOST
Consumer advocates say the Video Privacy Protection Act of 1988 was broadly written to adapt to advances in technology and safeguard consumers' personal information.
Jace DenmanHOST
The law's critics review it as a relic.
Bonnie AmistadiHOST
Semiconductor contract manufacturing and design company GlobalFoundries Inc. says it plans to open two chip ma- making factories in Malta, New York, that'll be financed by an investment of up to $21 billion from Japan.
Tammy TrujilloHOST
Matt Mattenson has details.
Matt MattinsonCORRESPONDENT
Justices heard arguments Wednesday in a dispute over whether the Video Privacy Protection Act of nineteen eighty-eight applies to subscriptions to any company's online products or just its audiovisual ones.
Matt MattinsonCORRESPONDENT
The claims were made by a subscriber to a Paramount Global-owned sports website who says he was tracked in violation of the law that prevents video rental records from being public.
Matt MattinsonCORRESPONDENT
I'm Matt Mattenson.
Scott CarrCORRESPONDENT
The Supreme Court is considering a lawsuit that goes after targeted digital advertisements.
Scott CarrCORRESPONDENT
The high court heard arguments Wednesday in a dispute over whether the Video Privacy Protection Act of 1988 applies to subscriptions to any company's online products or just its audiovisual ones.
Scott CarrCORRESPONDENT
The claims are made by a subscriber to a Paramount Global-owned sports website who says he was tracked in violation of the law that prevents video rental records from being made public.
Scott CarrCORRESPONDENT
An ICE agent could face felony charges after allegedly running over a man in Houston.
Gary SterkoffHOST
After nearly ninety minutes of oral argument in Salazar v.
Gary SterkoffHOST
Paramount Global, the justice appeared poised to agree with Michael Salazar that the law, the Video Privacy Protection Act, applies to any consumer of the product sold by a company that provides videos.
Gary SterkoffHOST
Although some members of the court expressed concerns about the possibility that allowing Salazar's suit to proceed could open the door to lawsuits against a broad swath of US companies, those concerns appeared to be assuaged in part by the prospect that other provisions of the law could serve as a check on such suits.
Gary SterkoffHOST
Moreover, some justices suggested that companies could easily avoid suits in the future by obtaining their customers' consent to share their personal information.
Joshua HammackSOUNDBITE_SPEAKER
We have no quarrel with that holding.
Joshua HammackSOUNDBITE_SPEAKER
We don't find it particularly surprising, but that's nothing like what Paramount Global does here.
Gary SterkoffHOST
Attorney Joshua Hammack, representing Michael Salazar, questioned by Justice Amy Coney Barrett in today's oral argument over the scope of the Video Privacy Protection Act.
Gary SterkoffHOST
Paul Clement was the attorney for Paramount Global, here questioned by Justice Ketanji Brown Jackson.
speaker_0HOST
The US Supreme Court heard arguments today in a privacy case rooted in the era of VHS tapes, but with major implications for privacy in the digital age.
speaker_0HOST
At issue is the Video Privacy Protection Act of 1988, which barred video rental stores like Blockbuster from disclosing their customers' rental histories.
speaker_0HOST
Congress passed the law after a reporter obtained the video rental records of Robert Bork during his unsuccessful nomination to the Supreme Court.
speaker_0HOST
Today, the justices appeared open to allowing a Tennessee man's privacy lawsuit to move forward.
Scott CarrCORRESPONDENT
Today, the Supreme Court's been considering a challenge to a nearly 40-year-old privacy law.
Matt MattinsonCORRESPONDENT
Justices heard arguments Wednesday in a dispute over whether the Video Privacy Protection Act of 1988 applies to subscriptions to any company's online products or just its audiovisual ones.
Matt MattinsonCORRESPONDENT
The claims were made by a subscriber to a Paramount Global-owned sports website who says he was tracked in violation of the law that prevents video rental records from being public.
Matt MattinsonCORRESPONDENT
I'm at Matt and Sen.
Dana WrightHOST
Gross.
Scott ParksHOST
Th- this is a story about a law that was passed, uh, back in the 1980s called the Video Privacy Protection Act, or VPPA, okay?
Dana WrightHOST
I love this story.
Scott ParksHOST
And here's how it reads.
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