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Soon it will be even harder to miss your favourite Netflix shows. (Who misses the release date anyways?!) The streaming giant will update it’s TV apps to show a “Latest” section. This section will show a list of movies and TV show seasons that will be released that week and the one thereafter. (Via Variety.) Think of it as a Netflix Reminders.

The titles will show a trailer and users can ask to be reminded when their program that they’re interested in goes LIVE. Therefore people will most likely receive a notification when they open the app. Much like most of the Netflix app, the list will be curated to individual members tastes.

This brand new section is available now to smart TV’s streaming devices and game consoles around the world. It will be located on the app’s sidebar. The feature is similar to “coming soon” area which is already available Android app.

How do you keep up to date on Netflix shows? Do you keep an eye on “new releases” “trending now” or do you read articles about what’s coming up? The new section will go some ways to help people keep interested in the streaming service and streamline a show-finding process.

(The Verge)

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Those Bandersnatch choices you made back in December. Well those choices were kept.

Michael Veale who is a technology policy researcher over at the University College London, did a little bit of digging and found out just what Netflix keep on you. Using the General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) – remember all those emails you got last year. That. To figure out that they track your choices.

According to Motherboard, Veale requested the Bandersnatch data from Netflix, to ask why: “it’s collecting data, the categories they’re sorting data into, third parties it’s sharing the data with, and other information.” Then subsequently posting it on Twitter.

Netflix told Veale that the data it collected helped them to “improve this model of storytelling in the context of a show or movie” While this seems pretty reasonable, Veale still concluded that it’s an invasion of privacy. It’s important to note that Netflix didn’t tell him how long they’d keep a hold of the data either.

We encourage you to check out Veale’s short Twitter thread by clicking here! It’s a great read! Very eye opening!

Consent

Veale told Motherboard:

“If you asked me, they should really be using consent (which you should be able to refuse) or legitimate interests (meaning you can object to it) …..It was tricky, as I had to ask these questions specifically.

It’s unclear if this is included by default in requests to get your data from Netflix or not. I can tell you often this kind of specific data is not included when you ask for ‘all your data.

Knowing what ‘all your data’ is, and what the company’s definition of ‘all your data’ does not include, is most of the challenge.”

Very interesting indeed. While it seems that it’s pretty harmless data collection. We should at least be told if we want out data collected.

(Refinery29)

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