Mr. Buckley leads off by pointing out that "There are forty bills introduced in Congress that seek to protect or enhance the privacy of American citizens," some of them having to do with sales of mailing lists and exchanges of medical information, others--prompted by the death of Princess Diana--seeking to rein in aggressive reporters and photographers. Miss Strossen vigorously opposes the latter ("That's very frightening in a free society, Bill. Where do you draw the line between aggressive, investigative reporting? Don't we consider that to be a heroic, essential undertaking in a democracy?") while asserting that "The ACLU proudly defends privacy ... in particular where it is most endangered, and that is, as you alluded to in your opening remarks, not for celebrities, but for the ordinary citizen ... As a result of a little-known bill that Congress passed in 1996, new data banks are being assembled which give us less privacy over our medical records than we have with respect to video rental records."