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California Puts the Kibosh on Birth Years |
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| Registered: March 13, 2007 | | Posts: 1,414 |
| | Posted: | | | | California has passed a law requiring IMDB and other subscription-based databases that use actor birth dates to remove them on request. I'm assuming California has no jurisdiction over Ken so he can probably thumb his nose at them, but this is definitely going to make it harder to find birth years, at least for some actors/actresses.
http://variety.com/2016/film/news/california-law-requiring-removal-actor-ages-database-sites-1201869799/ | | | | "This movie has warped my fragile little mind." |
| | Registered: April 1, 2007 |  Posts: 185 |
| | Posted: | | | | That's a strange thing. Birth date is a matter of public record isn't it? If you wanted to do some rooting, isn't everyone's birthdate in some public archive somewhere or am I over-simplifying it? | | | | Last edited: by 69samael69 |
| | Registered: March 16, 2007 |  Posts: 278 |
| | Posted: | | | | Also, IMDB publishes the full birth date, DVD Profiler only uses the birth year, so it doesn't have the same potential impact. |
| | Registered: March 18, 2007 | Reputation:  | | Posts: 2,550 |
| | Posted: | | | | Kibosh... for now. Some law professors think it'll be ruled unconstitutional. |
| | Registered: June 6, 2007 | Reputation:  | | Posts: 950 |
| | Posted: | | | | Quoting gardibolt: Quote:
I'm assuming California has no jurisdiction over Ken so he can probably thumb his nose at them, but this is definitely going to make it harder to find birth years, at least for some actors/actresses. May be it is time to abandon birth years and overhaul the linking system...  |
| | Registered: March 18, 2007 | Reputation:  | | Posts: 1,640 |
| | Posted: | | | | Maybe, but what is California going to do when it has no jurisdiction over Invelos. Amazon is a different matter all together unless they completely eliminate their nexus with California. |
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