I switched to that example because the same argument concerning privacy might also hold there, but where there is a difference between US law and the law elsewhere.

I did that to suggest that it may be another counter-example showing how that argument isn't really a strong one.

"That has not worked out well in the past." - the VPPA worked out pretty well, though of course not perfectly. It has been changed since then.

I personally like the requirement that if I no longer am a customer of a company (like Netflix) then they don't keep track of my records. That's a requirement of VPPA for video records, and I don't see how that requirement won't work out well for other areas.