A new bill passed by Congress will allow Netflix to share your video
rental history on Facebook (just like Spotify does now when linked to
your FB account), but an email privacy add-on was removed last minute.
Legislation sent to President Obama this week quietly
removed language in a bill that would have — for the first time — forced
law enforcement to obtain a warrant to read Americans’
email. Currently, private email that has been stored by a third party
for more than 180 days can be accessed by the government without a
warrant.
The Senate Judiciary Committee had added a provision to legislation
demanding that law enforcement or government agencies show probable
cause for email searches. The provision was added to a bill aimed to
allow users the ability to post on their Facebook feeds what they are
watching on video services [such as Netflix]. The bill, the Video
Privacy Protection Act, changed laws passed in 1988 that made it illegal
disclose someone’s video rental history following the leak of
failed-Supreme Court nominee Robert Bork’s video history to the Washington City Paper.
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