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Video Privacy Protection Act

The Video Privacy Protection Act of 1988 (VPPA) was signed into law by President Ronald Reagan to preserve the privacy of people's information collected when they rented, purchased, or delivered audio visual materials, and specifically videotapes. The law arose out of the Bork tapes controversy surrounding the Washington City Paper 's publication of a list of films rented by Robert Bork, a U.S. District of Columbia Circuit Court of Appeals Judge who had been nominated to fill a seat on the United States Supreme Court at the time. The law prohibits the disclosure of personal information collected by video tape service providers unless it falls under certain exceptions. The VPPA became a focus of attention in the legal industry once again around 2022. Its revival came as part of a larger trend in consumer class actions filed based on privacy law violations, both through new laws like the California Consumer Privacy Act and older laws like the VPPA and wiretapping statutes.