Can Your Netflix Queue Reveal Sexual Orientation?

Dec 19th, 2009
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One feature Netflix users have always taken for granted, privacy, might be in danger if they’re one of the 480,000 members whose information was shared as part of a contest to improve the company’s popular movie recommendation system. According to Wired , a closeted lesbian mother going by the pseudonym “Jane Doe” filed a lawsuit yesterday against the rental giant, claiming it had, among other things, broken a federal privacy law protecting citizens’ video rental information. The backstory: Netflix started a contest back in September 2006 that gave 50,000 contestants vying for $1 million two sets of data.

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  1. Matt
    Dec 20th, 2009 at 05:22
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    Nicely done!!The picture looks so ga*

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