Netflix records all of your Bandersnatch choices, GDPR request reveals

guest · Feb 13, 2019

Netflix records all of your Bandersnatch choices, GDPR request reveals
February 13, 2019
https://www.theverge.com/2019/2/13/18223071/netflix-bandersnatch-gdpr-request-choice-data

Netflix keeps a record all of your Bandersnatch choice data from its Black Mirror choose-your-own-adventure film, a technology policy researcher has discovered. The researcher, Michael Veale, obtained his viewing data after emailing Netflix to request it under GDPR’s right of access rules.
Motherboard reports that Veale’s aim was to use the experiment to educate people about how to use the law to request their data, and to encourage companies to make it more readily available.

Netflix told the researcher that it stores the data to “inform the personalised recommendations you see in future visits” as well as to help it, “determine how to improve [Bandersnatch’s] model of storytelling.”

Collecting data is one thing, but at least some effort should be made to ensure that most people know it’s happening, and Veale also argues they should be able to opt out of the practice if desired
Considering at least one Bandersnatch storyline revolves around its protagonist growing increasingly paranoid that his every move is being tracked and watched, there’s something strangely paradoxical about Veale’s discovery.
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shadek · Feb 13, 2019

How peculiar! I was being paranoid about having my choices recorded when I watched Bandersnatch.

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