Netflix One Step Closer to Video Sharing on Social Media

Only in U.S., decades-old bill won't let you share your favorite movies

Netflix is moving closer to offering its subscribers in the U.S. the ability to share through the service what movies or TV shows they watched on social media sites like Facebook. The Judiciary Committee voted today on a House bill that would update the Video Privacy Protection Act, a decades-old bill that prohibits the disclosure of video rentals without written permission for each one.

The committee took up the update along with amending the Electronic Communications Privacy Act to require law enforcement to obtain warrants for email searches.

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