Saturday, January 07, 2012

Good

Actress is suing IMDB for posting her age without her consent.

All this online information is out of control. Nowadays people think they have a right to all sorts of information about others and these online sites like Facebook, Google, IMDB, etc, sloppily use whatever information they can gather to enrich themselves. I myself had a problem with IMDB when they linked by common name to some other person suggesting I wrote all sorts of cartoon episodes for some random shows. In one meeting, someone asked about it. It took them forever to update it. What right does IMDB have to publish this information? And what obligation do they have to ensure it is correct? These are important issues as it affects people with reputations and careers. I've noticed the folks that are flippant about these issues are ones without reputations and without careers -- sort of like not caring about property rights until you've got some property you want to protect.

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