D&P Highlight: Do you have data privacy rights?
Oct 14, 2026 · 11 min · 9 segments
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Dana WrightHost
Scott ParksHost
Oct 14, 2026 · 11 min · 9 segments
Dana WrightHostScott 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?
The year was 1987, and it was also the era of a would-be Supreme Court justice named Robert Bork.
The Washington City Paper had published a story based on a list of 146 of Bork's video rentals, a snarky attempt to peer inside the judge's psyche.
Spoiler alert, Bork was a big fan apparently of James Bond and Alfred Hitchcock movies, and the story goes on.
... journalist basically, you know, journalists basically figured out, like they said, "We wanna know what he and his family members have rented on VHS." Think Blockbuster era, where you physically go in and you rent a movie.
I think they were looking for the big gotcha, you know, the m- movies that were way in the back behind the little beaded curtain.
... as consumers from companies selling that information or blabbing your preferences.
... 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?
The year was 1987, and it was also the era of a would-be Supreme Court justice named Robert Bork.
The Washington City Paper had published a story based on a list of 146 of Bork's video rentals, a snarky attempt to peer inside the judge's psyche.
Spoiler alert, Bork was a big fan apparently of James Bond and Alfred Hitchcock movies, and the story goes on.
... journalist basically, you know, journalists basically figured out, like they said, "We wanna know what he and his family members have rented on VHS." Think Blockbuster era, where you physically go in and you rent a movie.
I think they were looking for the big gotcha, you know, the m- movies that were way in the back behind the little beaded curtain.
... as consumers from companies selling that information or blabbing your preferences.
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