Comment Privacy of club membership data? (Score 1) 778
What's interesting is that this news came three days after the 50th anniversary of NAACP v. Alabama, a landmark freedom of association case:
In NAACP v. Alabama, the Court affirmed that the constitutional rights of speech and assembly include a right of private group association. The idea that Americans are free to join private groups was not new in 1958. However, the Court's decision to allow private groups to keep membership information confidential was an important constitutional milestone.
Whether handwritten on lined paper or stored electronically in a computer system, membership data is constitutionally protected from mandatory disclosure.
Couldn't YouTube be considered a type of club?
