uh oh
Posted on 12/31/2012 2:33:20 PM PST by Morgana
FULL TITLE: Netflix customers' ENTIRE movie rental history to be shared with Facebook... including all your guilty pleasures
Netflix users will soon be able to share every film they have watched with their Facebook friends - allowing the social networking giant even more lucrative information on its users' leisure time.
Up until now the Video Privacy Protection Act prohibited Netflix and other streaming services such as Hulu from sharing their customers' history or allowing them to post it themselves.
However, Congress has now passed a bill to the 1988 act that allows users to opt in or out of forthcoming Facebook 'social sharing' features, which let advertisers reach customers who watch movies on the streaming sites but do not 'like' it on those sites.
The Video Privacy Protection Act (VPPA) previously prevented these actions by stating in law that a person's movie rental history cannot be disclosed without written consent - the law was enacted after supreme court hopeful Robert Bork's rental history was leaked to Washington D.C.'s City Paper in 1987.
While this means that anyone's obsession with violent Honk Kong martial arts movies can not be shared among large internet corporations like Facebook, Netflix will give its customers the opportunity to turn off the sharing feature.
'We are pleased that the Senate moved so quickly after the House,' a Netflix spokesperson told TPM in a statement.
We plan to introduce social features for our US members in 2013, after the president signs it.'
Netflix has been attempting to allow its users to link their Netflix and Facebook accounts since 2011 to allow friends to share online the movies they have watched.
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>>You might enjoy watching this: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jI6WY1UmmaI&feature=player_embedded<<
LOL — perfect!
>>We hope you enjoyed watching “Big Bird and Friends” and “Texas Chainsaw Massacre.” Care to review them?<<
Or “We have recommendations for you!” then they suggest “The Maltese Falcon”
Well then. Todays your lucky day! Abott, and Costello Marathon on TCM all day. ;)
Lol! Yes, they do recommend! I forgot! That is even funnier!
We think you would like “tellietubbies” or “Natural Born Killers”!! LOL.
I am watching them meet the Mummy on TCM right now. I haven’t heard a single F-bomb or seen a gay love scene yet.
Now conservatives can be outed by the documentaries they watch, and anyone’s porn viewing is public information.
I cannot remember the short story, but it was one in which wanting privacy - and faking one’s public postings to maintain privacy - was considered a form of mental illness.
Heck no.
I'd settle for an alphabetical listing of half.
They seem dead set on recommending things due to preferences.
They were great, weren’t they?
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