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An actress who sued Amazon.com after her date of birth was posted on its Internet Movie Database has had her claim rejected by a jury in Seattle.
Huong Hoang, who goes by the stage name Junie Hoang, alleged that offers dried up after the database revealed her age.
IMDb argued it had the right to publish accurate data and that Hoang, 41, could not prove she lost out because of it.
According to the website, her credits include the 2011 title Gingerdead Man 3: Saturday Night Cleaver.
The site, which was launched in 1990 and purchased by Amazon in 1998, continues to post Ms Hoang's date of birth on her profile page.
In court documents filed anonymously in 2011, Amazon and its movie database subsidiary were accused of breach of contract, fraud, violation of privacy and consumer protection laws.
Parent company Amazon was dismissed as a defendant before the two-day trial, which concluded on Thursday.
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http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/entertainment-arts-22120587
It strikes me as absolutely ridiculous that anyone could be sued in the first case for publishing accurate information. The fact that this woman wanted to lie about her age is clearly her problem, not Amazon's!