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Originally Posted by fjtorres
The thing about this case is that IMDB was working off *publicly-available* information.
It's not as if they hired a PI to go digging into her past and violated her privacy; they just tapped into a public database and fed the results onto their website.
As a more-or-less public figure she had no real expectation of privacy there or elsewhere.
Gotta wonder about the lawyer that handled the case for her, though...
I suspect he got paid upfront.  |
The BBC story links to an
older article:
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The unnamed actress claims the website misused her legal date of birth after she signed up to the IMDbPro service in 2008. She believes revealing her age could lose her acting opportunities.
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I wonder what was in the terms of service that she agreed to.