I was credited in a TV series when I was 12 years old and also uploaded here in IMDb. I did not agree upon casting and acting in a small 5 second segment in a TV series to get my name uploaded to this website and also even if I did (it cannot be proved that I gave my permission, because no written contract was signed), I was underage, therefore not legally fit to take responsibility.
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The inclusion to this database requires no permission. The database simply lists factual information. It is IMDb policy to never remove factual information. So your theory of a contract does not exist. There are no contracts.
Your name shall remain. I'm sorry, that that is not what you want to hear, But it is the facts.
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Your name shall remain. I'm sorry, that that is not what you want to hear, But it is the facts.
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Shouldn't the website require the permission of the person, who is getting credited, to be credited in the website? I did not agree upon getting credited in the website, so this is completely unfair, because I believe it violates my privacy. I literally did not agree to this. How reliable or sacred your "information" is or isn't, it is should be nevertheless optional, if a person wants to be credited in the website or not (and also getting deleted from the database). I do not want other people to know IN PUBLIC in which TV series I've been in. Although the TV series episode aired in 2012 and it will 100% never be presented in the public television again, everybody that google searches me, can see that I acted in one episode. I want to know precisely:
1) Under what European/US laws does the company operate that gives the company the right to not comply with its users and not delete data off their database? If I remember correctly, then if the company operated under EU laws and did not comply with the users in terms of keeping unnecessary information, then it should be against GDRP (General Data Protection Regulation).
I also know that GDPR covers citizens of EU countries, independent of the location of the business. GDPR does require all companies doing business in the EU, and holding data on EU citizens, no matter where they are registered. GDPR should most definitely apply to US-based companies, unless they (and their executives) forever plan to fight EU jurisdiction.
I'm waiting for the reply.
Shouldn't the website require the permission of the person, who is getting credited, to be credited in the website? I did not agree upon getting credited in the website, so this is completely unfair, because I believe it violates my privacy. I literally did not agree to this. How reliable or sacred your "information" is or isn't, it is should be nevertheless optional, if a person wants to be credited in the website or not (and also getting deleted from the database). I do not want other people to know IN PUBLIC in which TV series I've been in. Although the TV series episode aired in 2012 and it will 100% never be presented in the public television again, everybody that google searches me, can see that I acted in one episode. I want to know precisely:
1) Under what European/US laws does the company operate that gives the company the right to not comply with its users and not delete data off their database? If I remember correctly, then if the company operated under EU laws and did not comply with the users in terms of keeping unnecessary information, then it should be against GDRP (General Data Protection Regulation).
I also know that GDPR covers citizens of EU countries, independent of the location of the business. GDPR does require all companies doing business in the EU, and holding data on EU citizens, no matter where they are registered. GDPR should most definitely apply to US-based companies, unless they (and their executives) forever plan to fight EU jurisdiction.
I'm waiting for the reply.
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No. A website should not require permission of an individual. After all, the information is public and they are just reflecting what is public knowledge. If it were otherwise, we'd live is some weird dystonia where individuals could censor public knowledge.
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How reliable or sacred your "information" is or isn't, it is should be nevertheless optional, if a person wants to be credited in the website or not (and also getting deleted from the database).So basically, you want an internet without a reliable IMDb, or Wikipedia or whatnot.
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I also know that GDPR covers citizens of EU countries, independent of
the location of the business. GDPR does require all companies doing
business in the EU, and holding data on EU citizens, no matter where
they are registered.
True for all entities "IN" the EU. But not outside the EU where the principal place of business is "NOT" in the EU.
No one can enforce their laws on another country unless an international treaty is signed specifically stating what law a treaty addresses and both parties agree to its implementation.
GDPR does not reach into American databases.
IMDb's database is in Washington State.
It is exempt from European Union regs.
And as the law works in the US, no individual State entity may enforce State Law on another State.
So California's law on this matter has an injunction in place at the moment.
As I stated, whether or not it seems fair to you, no permission is needed. That "IS" US Law.
Please wait for staff's reply.
No amount of additional information or examples are needed.
True for all entities "IN" the EU. But not outside the EU where the principal place of business is "NOT" in the EU.
No one can enforce their laws on another country unless an international treaty is signed specifically stating what law a treaty addresses and both parties agree to its implementation.
GDPR does not reach into American databases.
IMDb's database is in Washington State.
It is exempt from European Union regs.
And as the law works in the US, no individual State entity may enforce State Law on another State.
So California's law on this matter has an injunction in place at the moment.
As I stated, whether or not it seems fair to you, no permission is needed. That "IS" US Law.
Please wait for staff's reply.
No amount of additional information or examples are needed.
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