{"id":182,"date":"2009-09-25T15:01:35","date_gmt":"2009-09-25T19:01:35","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.law.harvard.edu\/berkmanevents\/?p=182"},"modified":"2009-09-25T15:01:35","modified_gmt":"2009-09-25T19:01:35","slug":"netflix-is-about-to-commit-a-privacy-valdez-with-its-customers-viewing-data-boing-boing","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/berkmanevents\/2009\/09\/25\/netflix-is-about-to-commit-a-privacy-valdez-with-its-customers-viewing-data-boing-boing\/","title":{"rendered":"Netflix is about to commit a privacy Valdez with its customers&#8217; viewing data &#8211; Boing Boing"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Paul Ohm <a href=\"http:\/\/cyber.law.harvard.edu\/interactive\/events\/2009\/03\/ohm\">came to Berkman\/CRCS<\/a> this past march:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>CU Boulder&#8217;s Paul Ohm writes about Netflix&#8217;s insane new plan to release millions of customers&#8217; personal information &#8212; ZIP code, gender, year of birth &#8212; as a sequel to its Netflix Challenge. Latanya Sweeney&#8217;s famous study on de-anonymizing data has shown that date (not just year) of birth, gender and ZIP are sufficient to personally identify 87% of Americans.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>via <a href=\"http:\/\/www.boingboing.net\/2009\/09\/22\/netflix-is-about-to.html\">Netflix is about to commit a privacy Valdez with its customers&#8217; viewing data &#8211; Boing Boing<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Paul Ohm came to Berkman\/CRCS this past march: CU Boulder&#8217;s Paul Ohm writes about Netflix&#8217;s insane new plan to release millions of customers&#8217; personal information &#8212; ZIP code, gender, year of birth &#8212; as a sequel to its Netflix Challenge. Latanya Sweeney&#8217;s famous study on de-anonymizing data has shown that date (not just year) of [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":482,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-182","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/berkmanevents\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/182","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/berkmanevents\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/berkmanevents\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/berkmanevents\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/482"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/berkmanevents\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=182"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/berkmanevents\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/182\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":183,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/berkmanevents\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/182\/revisions\/183"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/berkmanevents\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=182"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/berkmanevents\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=182"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/berkmanevents\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=182"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}