Privacy and Data Use

  Leveraging the use (or threatening the use) of user data.    Its not clear if the tweet referenced below went just to the people referred to.   If not is it just a statistical snippet, or still clearly a 'We know who you are" revelation?  More discussion at the link.

Did Netflix cross the data-disclosure line?   by Tom Ryan in Retailwire

A social media firestorm erupted last week after a tweet from Netflix arrived that some felt shamed 53 of its subscribers for their obsessive viewing habits.

“To the 53 people who’ve watched A Christmas Prince every day for the past 18 days: Who hurt you?” Netflix wrote in the tweet.

Larger retailers sometimes use their customer data — on an anonymous basis — for marketing, content or research purposes.   .... "