Class-action lawsuit settlement forces Netflix privacy changes

Netflix has now changed its privacy policy so that it no longer retains rental history for people who have left the video site.

The move comes as the result of a class-action lawsuit filed against the company, alleging that Netflix unlawfully kept and disclosed such information of former customers. “Netflix has agreed to change its data retention practices so that it separates (known as “decoupling”) Entertainment Content Viewing History (that is, movies and TV shows that someone watched) from identification information for those subscribers who have not been a Netflix subscriber for at least 365 days, with some exceptions,” said the organizers of the class-action suit.