In the absence of a federal data privacy law, plaintiffs and their counsel have looked to traditional state and federal laws to seek redress for alleged privacy violations. One such statute is the Video Privacy Protection Act (VPPA) of 1988 (18 U.S.C. Section 2710), which lived in relative obscurity for decades until a recent spate of lawsuits put it on the radar of many organizations and attorneys. This article will provide a brief history of the VPPA, an overview of how the courts apply it to modern technologies, as well a description of some of the statute's limitations as courts attempt to shoehorn new facts into an old law.