Netflix Spilled Your Brokeback Mountain Secret, Lawsuit Claims

Wired by Ryan Singel | Dec. 18, 2009 (News Report)

An in-the-closet lesbian mother is suing Netflix for privacy invasion, alleging the movie rental company made it possible for her to be outed when it disclosed insufficiently anonymous information about nearly half-a-million customers as part of its $1 million contest to improve its recommendation system.

The suit known as Doe v. Netflix (.pdf) was filed in federal court in California on Thursday, alleging that Netflix violated fair-trade laws and ... Full Story »

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Subjects: U.S., Business, Sci/Tech, Living, Media, Entertainment
Topics: Internet, Gay and Lesbian, Social Networks, Movies, Privacy
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Posted by: Posted by Derek Hawkins - Dec 18, 2009 - 10:20 AM PST
Reviewed by: Derek Hawkins (review), Joel Kulenkamp (review), Iain Macdonald (review), Andre Heinemann (review)
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Edited by: Derek Hawkins - Dec 18, 2009 - 10:21 AM PST

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Iain Macdonald
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 by Iain Macdonald - Dec. 19, 2009

Has made the effort to contact a selection of people in this case. Did their background research properly. Great work.

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 by Andre Heinemann - Dec. 20, 2009

Relevant and interesting topic, well researched, balanced report, factual with enough information to gain a basic understanding of the issue.

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Derek Hawkins
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 by Derek Hawkins - Dec. 18, 2009
Derek posted this story.
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