“Netflix says it will have a cool integration with Facebook up and running sometime in the next three months, but only for subscribers in Canada and Latin America (where it has yet to officially open for business).“Blame the government, says CEO Reed Hastings, citing a law I’ve never heard of.”
The law in question is called the Video Privacy Protection Act, and Hastings says that Netflix is hoping new legislation currently under consideration will clarify ambiguities about how user video viewing data can be shared – the issue that’s causing the holdup to begin with.