Salazar v. Paramount Global Won’t Save Your Privacy

Is Chick-fil-A a video store? Is Nordstrom the same as Blockbuster? These were two of the strange-sounding but important hypotheticals solemnly posed by justices of the Supreme Court of the United States during Wednesday’s oral argument, in Salazar v. Paramount Global, Inc., a dispute over a 1988 statute that purports to regulate what information about its customers a “video tape service provider” might share with others.