SCOTUS to take up 1988 privacy law case

Source: USA Today

“The Supreme Court will decide whether a 1988 privacy law spurred by the disclosure of a high 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 Bork had rented. Congress responded by creating stiff penalties for any ‘video tape service provider’ who discloses personal information about their customers without consent.” (01/26/26)

https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/politics/2026/01/26/supreme-court-video-privacy-law/88302348007/