{"id":1250,"date":"2010-03-12T18:33:41","date_gmt":"2010-03-13T00:33:41","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/hunch.net\/?p=1250"},"modified":"2010-03-12T18:33:41","modified_gmt":"2010-03-13T00:33:41","slug":"netflix-challenge-2-canceled","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hunch.net\/?p=1250","title":{"rendered":"Netflix Challenge 2 Canceled"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The <a href=\"http:\/\/blog.netflix.com\/2010\/03\/this-is-neil-hunt-chief-product-officer.html\">second Netflix prize is canceled<\/a> due to <a href=\"https:\/\/hunch.net\/?p=303\">privacy problems<\/a>.  I continue to believe my original assessment of this paper, that the privacy break was somewhat overstated.  I still haven&#8217;t seen any serious privacy failures on the scale of the <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/AOL_search_data_scandal\">AOL search log release<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>I expect privacy concerns to continue to be a big issue when dealing with data releases by companies or governments.  The theory of maintaining privacy while using data is improving, but it is not yet in a state where the limits of what&#8217;s possible are clear let alone how to achieve these limits in a manner friendly to a prediction competition.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The second Netflix prize is canceled due to privacy problems. I continue to believe my original assessment of this paper, that the privacy break was somewhat overstated. I still haven&#8217;t seen any serious privacy failures on the scale of the AOL search log release. I expect privacy concerns to continue to be a big issue &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/hunch.net\/?p=1250\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Netflix Challenge 2 Canceled&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4,31],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1250","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-announcements","category-competitions"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/hunch.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1250","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/hunch.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/hunch.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hunch.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hunch.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1250"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/hunch.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1250\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/hunch.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1250"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hunch.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1250"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hunch.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1250"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}