ThinkProgress: I’ve been following the age discrimination suit actress Huong Hoang filed agaisnt Amazon.com and IMDb.com for revealing her name for a while now, and it’s worth revisiting now one of the central claims in the case has been revealed. Hoang’s allegations that the companies had committed fraud and violated her privacy have been thrown out, but she’s still got a live consumer protection claim against them. The grounds for those charges? Hoang alleges that Amazon.com and IMDb got her age information from her credit card data.
Friday, April 06, 2012
IMDb's Age Discrimination Suit and Journalistic Ethics
ThinkProgress: I’ve been following the age discrimination suit actress Huong Hoang filed agaisnt Amazon.com and IMDb.com for revealing her name for a while now, and it’s worth revisiting now one of the central claims in the case has been revealed. Hoang’s allegations that the companies had committed fraud and violated her privacy have been thrown out, but she’s still got a live consumer protection claim against them. The grounds for those charges? Hoang alleges that Amazon.com and IMDb got her age information from her credit card data.
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Without knowing the entire story, I think that if this actress's information was spread from an illegal source, this method of obtaining information is absolutely wrong. There are so many ways that companies choose to discriminate against their workers sometimes, for whatever reason. This woman wanted to keep something private and instead was exploited.
I can't figure out why she wanted to keep this information private but that is her business. Finding work and successfully getting the job is so difficult. For an actor, the little details do matter because their job is to essentially sell themselves (I'm not alluding to prostitution). It is their face or something like their face that is being seen and more than anything. More importantly. it is important for them to be well liked by the people hiring them.
I really hope that these allegations are not true. The easiest (and sometimes the only) way to pay for online purchases is to charge them to a credit/debit card. How can we feel safe about making any online purchases if it's that easy for someone to get and spread my personal information from a credit card purchase? Whether or not this information will be released in a way that harms me (like it was for this actress), that sort of privacy violation is not okay. In other news, I am intrigued by the fact that the privacy and fraud allegations have been thrown out. Is this woman making things up or was it just difficult to figure out where her age information was obtained from? I still think she's right in being upset and I hope that the people responsible (Amazon, the credit card companies, etc.) are held liable and made to realize the effect that their actions really have on their customers.
this topic came up in a green page a few weeks back and i commented about it then. i feel like there is no reason for imdb to need her age. This sounds a lot like the rupert murdoch scandal. which is just ridiculous that the media is resorting to this sort of measures to find their information. how long ago was it that the media decided to hide president Roosevelts polio and how far have we come. i don't know what happened in those 67 years but i find it pretty depressing
I agree with the author of the article that if it is found that the information about the actress’s name was taken off of her credit card that would be illegal and wrong, but I find it far more likely that the information was obtained in a different manor. At this point if feels as if the actress is upset that her true age was posted on the internet and is trying to make the companies that posted it pay. I also understand the point that it is not really necessary for Imbd to post an actor’s age but believe that they have the right to. It goes back to the first amendment of the constitution.
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