Netflix Wanting Facebook Link Seeks to Ease Disclosure Ban

During the 1987 battle over Robert Bork’s U.S. Supreme Court nomination, a Washington tabloid published Bork’s video rentals. The next year, Congress banned such disclosures without customer consent. That two-decade-old law is now the target of lobbying by online video provider Netflix Inc., which says the measure is blocking its deal with Facebook Inc. to let U.S. customers link their Netflix accounts to the world’s largest social network and share movies and television shows with friends.