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President Obama Signs Video Privacy Protection Act Amendments Act
Practical Law Legal Update 0-523-3396 (Approx. 2 pages)
President Obama Signs Video Privacy Protection Act Amendments Act
by PLC Intellectual Property & Technology
| Published on 11 Jan 2013 • USA (National/Federal) |
On January 10, 2012, President Obama signed the Video Privacy Protection Act Amendments Act of 2012. The Act amends provisions of the federal criminal code to allow video tape service providers to receive advance consent over the Internet to disclose consumers' personally identifiable information.
On January 10, 2012, President Obama signed the Video Privacy Protection Act Amendments Act of 2012, which Congress passed as H.R. 6671 on December 20, 2012.
The Act amends provisions of the federal criminal code (18 U.S.C § 2710(b)(2)) that authorize a video tape service provider to disclose personally identifiable information concerning a consumer's rental or purchase of, or subscription to, prerecorded audio visual materials or services to any person if the service provider has the consumer's informed, written consent. The amendments:
- Allow consent to be provided through an electronic means using the internet.
- Require consent to be in a form distinct and separate from any form setting out the consumer's other legal or financial obligations concerning the consumer's video rental or other transaction.
- Allow consumers to give consent in advance for a set period of time, not to exceed two years or until the consumer withdraws consent, whichever is sooner.
- Require the video tape service provider to give the consumer, at the consumer's election, an opportunity either to withdraw consent on a case-by-case basis or to withdraw from ongoing disclosures.