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The last major American privacy law, the 1988 Video Privacy Protection Act was passed in 1988 by Reagan. The only reason it happened is that politicians realized that their privacy was affected. Robert Bork was going through his Supreme Court confirmation hearings and someone got a hold of the tapes he had rented and published them.
Politicians were worried about their own personal privacy, so they passed a new law to protect the privacy of people's video tape rentals.
Maybe the fact that the targets here were politicians will mean that something will happen with data privacy, for once.
They'll pass a law that only benefits them. Our data will still all be up for grabs.
Some sites already do this. Lexisnexis won't remove all of your info unless you're a government official, police officer, or have a police report about a threat against you. Absolute bullshit and should be illegal.
the country has been for decades, why not your data?
Probably not.
Never heard that story before.
It's where the term borked comes from