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A leak of politicians' dirty habits should hopefully do it.
by Nextgrid 10mo ago
A leak of politicians' dirty habits should hopefully do it.
- le-mark 10mo ago[flagged]
- neilv 10mo agoLike previously happened with video store rental records? https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bork_tapes https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bork_tapes > The subsequent leakage and coverage of the tapes resulted in Congress passing the Video Privacy Protection Act (VPPA), which forbids the sharing of video tape rental information, amidst a bipartisan consensus on intellectual privacy.[8][9][10] Proponents of the VPPA, including Senator Patrick Leahy, contended that the leakage of Bork's tapes was an outrage.[11][12] The bill was passed in just over a year after the incident.[13][14]
- mc32 10mo agoYeah and that was for innocuous tapes. Imagine what they would have done if the rentals had been salacious? That said, if I were to imagine myself working at a place like that when they existed, I can't see myself turning over customer data like that willy-nilly to someone fishing for information. Like are you the police, what gives?