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Netflix Can use similar data to promote research in other recommendation problem

After Netflix Prize, Netflix inc. announce that they will hold another competition by using more user data (gender, zipcode, age, etc) to improve prediction accuracy of recommender system. However, many Netflix users think this is violate to they privacy rules and do not want Netflix to reveal such data. http://www.wired.com/threatlevel/2009/12/netflix-privacy-lawsuit/ As a competitor of Netflix [...]