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@ Cory Doctorow
2025-02-26 11:21:36This is because the US Congress hasn't passed a new consumer privacy law since 1988, when Ronald Reagan signed a law called the Video Privacy Protection Act that bans video store clerks from telling newspapers which VHS cassettes you took home. The fact that Congress hasn't updated Americans' privacy protections since *Die Hard* was in theaters isn't a coincidence or an oversight. 72/