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Originally Posted by Sil_liS
Mentioning discrimination is not trolling just because discrimination pushes emotional buttons. If you will look at the title of the thread you will notice that it contains the words: "age discrimination".
Making analogies helps understand a situation. In this particular case it ended up showing that you don't consider age discrimination to be on the same level with other forms of discrimination, to the point where you don't consider it illegal. To me it is on the same level. By making the analogy I wasn't trying to increase the emotional level of the discussion.
It is difficult to get the full meaning of what somebody is trying to say from just reading a post. In this case I can't tell if your reaction to her lying about her age is based on the concept of 'lying is bad at all times, regardless of the reasons behind the lie' or not.
My reasoning regarding the lie is this: what matters is if the actor can play the part. Because of that, the actual age of the actor should have no influence on the decision to hire the actor. So lying about one's age shouldn't matter at all, and therefore it can't be characterized as fraudulent.
So form my point of view that leaves the situation to this: a person made a profile on a website then wanted the information in one field removed. The website wouldn't allow her to remove the data herself, and the management wouldn't remove the data for her. Then they used her legal name, which they knew not from the data that she submitted for the profile, but from the credit card information, to get personal information on her from a website, and while they had agreed not to distribute this information, they did so anyway.
According to the motion that was filed, and in agreement with the statement of IMDb’s customer service manager (Giancarlo Cairella):
She provided IMDb with credit-card billing information (the subscription was free to try, but she needed to provide the information) which they then gave to PrivateEye.com to find out her real date of birth. By this they violated the agreement. When they posted her real date of birth they violated her privacy. It doesn't matter who gave them the date of birth, they were not allowed to post it without her permission.
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If, as everyone seems to agree, an IMDB pro account is something of a "busienss card" for the movie industry, providing deliberately false information is, at least arguably, fraudulent, and could have a negative effect on the usefulness (and business reputation) of the site. And as you quoted, they specifically reserve the right to share information for purposes of "Law enforcement,
fraud protection, and court orders."
Might be why the jury didn't buy her story, eh?