Document Type
Blog Post
Publication Date
6-21-2014
Abstract
In the twenty first century, we are accustomed to the privacy protections that prohibit video rental service companies from releasing our consumer service history to other sources without first obtaining our written, signed consent. However, most consumers likely do not know the historical significance of why we came to appreciate these privacy protections or what the exact terms of these privacy protections are.
Recommended Citation
Williams, Erika, "The Historical Significance, Modernization, and Future of the Video Privacy Protection Act" (2014). GGU Law Review Blog. 28.
https://digitalcommons.law.ggu.edu/ggu_law_review_blog/28
Comments
Also available online at: http://ggulawreview.org/2014/06/21/the-historical-significance-modernization-and-future-of-the-video-privacy-protection-act/.
Author writes: "This online article is a shortened-summary of the in-depth research paper I wrote in Fall 2013. In that paper, I focused on the history of the Video Privacy Protection Act (VPPA) of 1988, an online streaming company’s lawsuit, the resulting lobbying for change in the VPPA, the 2013 amendment of the VPPA, and the benefits and consequences of these changes. Here, I state only the 2013 amendment’s impact on the consumers. However, the complete research paper is available on my LinkedIn page at http://lnkd.in/bKnFHy7 or you may click on it under my “Experience” section of my full profile at http://www.linkedin.com/pub/erica-williams/41/81/808/."