There are so many more important ways to determine my "appropriateness" for a role or to judge my talent - my age should not be one of them.

My birthday was put up without my permission. I can't get it taken down and its my page! I should be allowed to control what personal information I want on the site.

It's so important that our ages aren't on IMDB. It has actually cost me auditions and jobs. Please remove them as we are ridiculously judged by our age within our business.

Art knows no age.

Stating a true age on our IMDB page severely limits our employment opportunities. I should be able to remove it if I wish.

This truly cost's people work

When I worked in casting we checked and sometimes wish we hadn't. It biases you. You only need to know DOB when someone is a minor.

too much is known about the known, look to Wikipedia for that for a known person. It's how you play. Excellent work can be had at any age. It's the individual present what makes the difference. Leave a little mystery for surprise.

please remove birth dates from the imdb website. It is illegal for casting directors to ask for your age in an audition and it should be the same for all acting related websites.

as a woman, it does cost us jobs. Period.

stop Ageism

As,a member of SAG-AFTRA and AEA, I whole heartedly support this.

I'd like to have a modicum of control over what the public knows about me. I didn't enter this information and I don't want it on my page.

If there are jobs I know I lost because my age is on IMDB, how many other jobs, auditions, and meetings have I lost because of this?

This is private information that shoud not be displayed publicly!!

My age is incorrect IMDB. I've tried e erythroblastosis to change it and cannot. I even bought $100 IMDB membership. Very frustrating!!!

imdb has listed my personal information that subjects me to identity theft.

IMDB affects more than people getting work in "The Industry."

I think there should be an option to keep DOB hidden from the public.

I agree that posting your birth date should be an option, not a mandatory irreversible feature of IMBD. Though we appreciate many services that they provide it can breech an actor's privacy, leave them vulnerable to identity theft & yes, age discrimination in our industry. It is sad that the actor's voice has been ignored on this despite many requests and pleas.

Would love to see this petition succeed! Tired of being stonewalled by IMDb/Amazon

PLEASE ALLOW THIS TO BE A CHOICE! IT'S RIDICULOUS THAT IT"S IS NOT.

what about a class action lawsuit? or unclear user agreement lawsuit- had no idea they could post personal information, i though it was used solely for jobs, like a resume. i don't list my age (nor does anyone else) on a resume!

I look so much younger then what I am that I get called in for roles that don't fit me and then when I go in your the younger ones I book them

I have been trying to get an incorrect birthdate removed for years - they won't budge. Anyone else stop buying from Amazon?? :)

Please it's time.

Thank you for fighting for this!

thank you for doing this. It's outrageous and increased info for identity theft and fraud etc...

It's wrong when you have famous actors on it with hidden DOB's...

to me a persons birthday is personal and a violation of privacy not to mention providing potential identify theft information

I am outraged that IMDB will not respect people's wishes regarding this. I am a film maker/writer in Canada and this issue literally keeps me up at night. We need to fix this.

After sending IMDB my correct information and even photocopy of several ID's proving my real age (which they list me as much older on the site), they still refuse to remove my birthdate which has caused me some issues during auditions.

An injustice to job equality and fairness in an already rigged industry

Hollywood is ageist. And this is a discriminatory tool.

I find it utterly arrogant that IMDB will not comply with requests from member clients to remove age information...this industry can be incredibly ageist and there is no reason why especially for your average crew member to have age as part of any relevant information. I have received nothing but rude responses to my requests.

Time for IMDB to listen to its paying subscribers

I have repeatedly asked imdb to remove both my birth date and full legal name, both of which appeared on the website without my consent. Age is potentially detrimental to my employment opportunities, not to mention both those pieces of info increase the risk of identity theft. It's unacceptable that they won't remove it!

The age of a person listed on IMBD is no ones business. We each own our own domains, the real meaning of ones domain. It is private.

Many people who work in the entertainment industry also work other jobs where age discrimination is just as prevalent as in the film industry. The IMDb policy makes age discrimination unavoidable. This must be changed.

thanks for the petition.. unions should have addressed this issue long ago. i discontinued imdb pro membership years ago for this very reason. so much for privacy anywhere, any more. shame on you imdb.. and amazon!

Please remove all age related info when it comes to actors. This is increasing descrimination based on age which is illegal

It should be our choice to display it on their site or not.

I really hope this petition works!!

Privacy is important.

You're right ; however they (IMDB) think that they don't have to respect privacy of laws related to discrimination base on a person age. Shame on them.

The company IMDB think that they are above law; this is clearly discrimination case; the fact is that IMDB do not have right to publish any data without living person written approval; for them is big business; don't buy anything from Amazon.com. They have no right to publish any personal date without your permission.

It's shockingly ironic that IMDB has zero grasp on why this is a major problem with actors and performers. Ridiculous. Take birthdates off the site.

I am in complete agreement with this petition. IMDb had no right to limit our work opportunities and not have birth dates removed that they have publicly published (that should be private information in the first place) upon request.

A CD for a coffee commercial once called and told me that I was the favorite on the call back list and that they would call me over the we end for the call back time. When I didn't hear back, I called the CD on Monday to follow up. He said, "the client checked your IMDb page and decided that he wanted to go with someone younger". At the time I was 30 and normally was only hired for 18 to look younger. However, this commercial was asking for mid twenties. IMDb hurt my chances then and many other times. CD's have often complained to my agent when ever I auditioned for roles within my age range because I look too young" and it wasted their time! Yet if a client happens to look up my age before ever meeting me--that can hinder my chances of being seen! In a business where there is so much age-discrimination, I do believe that our Sag-Aftra Union should be fighting on our behalf to keep this from happening. Age discrimination is just as prevalent as sex and race discrimination combined. Any discrimination is wrong! Let us audition and let our talent book the job--don't hurt our chances of getting in the door by posting our age without our consent. ***Also, many years ago I was the victim of identity theft. No where else on the Internet (except for IMDb) was my birthdate listed. Did IMDb help the identity thieves: Quite possibly! **We should have the right to the privacy of our birthdate. That information in the wrong hands makes us vulnerable to indentity theft.

Every human being should have a right to not have personal information posted on public, for profit sites, IMDb is a business, it's memebers pay to be on the site, the members should have a right to not display personal information such as age, or any other personal information, not only is that a total violation of personal privacy, it is also dangerous for identity theft and IMDb has NO right to force it's paid members to display unwanted personal information.

I fully support this petition, each one of us needs to help this get to 20k signatures, not only is this a problem for identity theft and stalking it's also an outright violation in many other ways. IMDb members PAY to have their profile up there, forcing them to display personal information that is not approved has to be illegal, we need a good legal team to back us on this. If you are not a A lister you are not protected, anyone can use your name and now they have your B Day too, so they are one step closer to hacking your life and not only that IMDb posts the county you were born in so now people can really find out more personal information about you. It's very suppressible to the artists and IMDb should be forced to take down unwanted personal info, who made them God of our personal information? Just because we are artists means we should give away our personal rights? How is that logical or legal?

Why isn't SAG fighting on our behalf? I want to know that!

Stop it NOW !

Not needed, casting directors are smart enough to cast someone without having to be told an age.

I would appreciate if my birthday dis removed from my IMDB profile. Not sure how it got there thanks. David de Casaus IATSE Local 700 mbr#15416

Please take age off of IMDB,

Hollywood is an industry that discriminates on a person's race, gender AND age! A person's true age should be the owner's right to privacy. To claim that all facts are published on IMDB regardless of their choice for it to be public knowledge violates their privacy rights. All requests for a person's age NOT to be published needs to be respected and removed!

There is too much personal information online and it is both dangerous and a violation of personal privacy.

birth dates exposed against will is violation of privacy

It should be optional, to include your date of birth/age.

YES PLEASE!! I've been trying , begging, and yelling for years to have IMDB remove my age! I Thank you for starting this petition! Let's Do this!!

It makes ABSOLUTELY NO SENSE that the actor themselves cannot control the content on what is a vey public resume.

Couldn't agree more! Releasing personal birthdates is putting us all in danger!

Imdb has some serious privacy violations ! You can't charge actors $20 a month and we only have control over information on our Pro page. But any Joe schmoe can submit our birthdate and that's not removable?? And you require legal documentation from the actor to correct a birthdate but can't remove it.?? You ass clowns should be sued. I hope everyone signs this petition!!!

an ongoing issue with IMDb that has long been complained about and needs to be eradicated. Nothing good can be gleaned from publishing actor's ages. we PAY for the service, we should be able to control our personal content.

I've been trying to get my birthdate off IMDB (that someone other than me) put up for over 10 years. As an actor who plays much younger than my chronological age I should be able to control my own information if it compromises my ability to get work.

Excellent petition!

Industry professionals have the right to choose what IMDB displays about them or not!

I wholeheartedly agree. There is no reason to have ages listed when actors are additionally screened by headshots and resumes. Let the CD and director decide how old or young the person looks and hire based on that.

I have tried to get them to correct several mistakes to no avail.

IMDB is a joke when it comes to half of the stuff they put up. You should be able to regulate your content as well as as a Dept head be able to regulate your Dept credits.

age discrimination

I approve of this petition. Oscar Jordan

Let the person or assigned rep only control our info. Thanks

I have been fighting against IMDb's blatant and malicious age discrimination and talent manipulation since 2008. Col Needham and the IMDb admins control OUR information from a throne of absolute rule without the slightest regard to the thousands of industry talent who are listed on their site or their many thousands of daily users.

I'm PROUD of my age. But as long as this business can use it against me, a PAY service needs to accommodate the wishes of its customers and allow us whether we want that info revealed or not.

I've been trying to delete my birthdate from IMDB for years.

i have tried for years. it is SO EASY to access ones personal information if u have their birthdate and year. so wrong.

You are as young or old as you look or feel. Stop this discrimination

Please remove age and also origin of birth. That would be a good one.

I am older than I look and I lose out on work ALL the time because they see my real age!!

Age should not have anything to do with the skill set one may have.

thank you..

No brainer

Either show everyone's or no ones. But not just some.

Removal of Birthdate

Remove birthdates and years!

You are making a lot of money off actors and hurting them in the process. It's wrong.

Mine isn't even verified! They claim they won't remove "factual information" but ha ne proof that my birthday is correct!

Finally.

Down with age discrimination. Do not blab the ages and birth dates of actors. They are NOBODY"S business.

Hopefully this will also make it possible for actors to also remove credits from their resume on IMDB that they request removed!!!!

This should not be public information it's a invasion of private information.

About time.

They should also allow film makers to remove the budget from their films

Ageism has no place in the entertainment industry. End it now.

It affects our employment because if you don't look your age, you are passed over when they want that age. Whereas if they don't know your age, you get hired for the age you look and that's the important thing anyway.

It's all about being a storyteller. All ages, all walks of life - diversity is beautiful and its truthful to what exists all over the planet.

Ageism is real and affects more women than men in the industry. Removing the ages & birthdays from our IMDb accounts will even the playing field.

Please take them off!

Art can't have age bar! I totally agree there is no need to mention age!

Remove info associated to age and birthdays of individual talents.

It's not how long you've been on the planet, but how old or young you think, behave, and (yes) look that should determine the roles you play.

I'm sorry, but this is the dumbest, stupidest petition I have ever seen in my entire life. IMDB has nothing to do why you're throwing a fit about your lack of talent booking auditions. You want to throw a fit at someone, throw it at the execs. They're the ones who are making these disgusting decisions. They're the gate keepers who are keeping you out. IMDB showing your age has nothing to do with it nor should it be. It's a nasty, shallow business. Either your keep fighting tooth & nail or get out and do whatever else makes you happy. SMH...

I am backing this petition because we mature actors/actresses miss out on opportunities just because they look at our age, instead of focusing on the fact that some of us look a lot younger than we really are. In my humble opinion I consider this discrimination, due to being overlooked cause of age, and not based on current look nor talent!

Being a SAG member, this practice causes age discrimination

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Considering that there has always been a union rule that a casting director cannot ask an actor their age at an audition, it seems a given that IMDB should remove birthdate and age info from their website, or at the very least allow actors the option to show or not show that information on their profile.

Long overdue.

Happy to sign the petition!

Finally!!!

Ageism needs to stop!!!

This seems ridiculous. Why a website wants to put out information on people that the people do not want shared seems to me hurtful and not helpful. I used to frequent IMDB, now I'll just stop using it entirely.

I support this petition

Absolutely! "Portrayable age" - i.e. how one convincingly appears to others - is the only one that is relevant to casting.

I have witnessed casting offices using IMDB to look up ages and using the info posted there to decide against calling in a potential actor even though, prior to that info, they were saying that this person was perfect for the part. This is discriminatory and needs to be changed.

This shouldn't be an issue in 2016!!! If we want to be a liberal open-minded society, we have to be consequent and firm in our values. Everyone should be able to decided wether or not he/she want his/her private information published on the web. I never understood why IMDB told me my age is an important information for the film industry and therefore can't be removed. There were times in history where the privacy of a person was valued, in our times this seems to be obsolete I wondered why IMDB hasn't been sewed like facebook has been before when discriminating peoples personal rights. THANK YOU for organizing this petition.

This should not be legal. Their private information is not for public consumption. Remove ages and birthdays now!

I have been requesting my name be removed from IMDB for a decade, to no avail. For both identity theft reasons and to combat an ageist industry, please make this change!

SAG member for 38 years.

this should be illegal

I'm an actress and I don't look my age

It's ridiculous that you can edit almost everything else on the site but you cannot remove the age. Especially if you are paying for a pro account, you should be able to control what is seen. Having the age does nothing for public, but does hinder the actor from certain roles and opportunities with casting directors and agents.

I need to change the age showing on my IMDB. Please remove birthdate

Age is only a number.

Please remove birthday and year from IMDB.

Nice that you can give your age at your discression

Please remove birthdates and ages from IMDB

I wholeheartedly agree with the grievances specified in this petition.

I think in an effort to support the fight against age discrimination, this is important. I also think that identity theft is a real problem and personal information like birthdate and age shouldn't be readily accessible.

For security reasons, burthdates should be removed.

I'm shocked at how childish Amazon has been acting in this delicate topic. What they've been doing is neither fair or ethical. I urge anyone who has the power to do something about this to take a look at this injustice.

In an industry of judgment and assumptions, stating an individual's age against their wanting to grant permission is discrimination like in any other job interview or situation, someone's age is not allowed to be asked in reference to their capability to do the work required of them. Same as acting "work". We lose opportunities before we even can loose the job because of employers looking at age in an unfair and skewed reverence.

Since actors are in the business of acting and since it's against the law to make age a condition of employment, it's essential that ages be removed from IMDB. I am a 31-year veteran, award-winning, casting director who has hired hundreds of thousands of actors. I emphatically endorse IMDB removing age from the profiles listed.

I have lost jobs because I do not look my age. I am cast in younger roles because of my appearance, only to lose the job when they see my real age. When they call for women my age, I am not cast because I look too young. Not fair

It is discriminating to show our age. It should be up to us wether we want our real age shown or not!

Please remove age and birthdates from IMDb. Sadly, such information DOES adversely affect Entertainment Industry professionals.

In an Industry that values youth and looks, it is complete idiocy for IMDb to use birth-dates and age in any artist or technician's profile especially when that information has the potential to keep them from attaining their next job. Please remove birthdays and ages from all IMDb profiles immediately!!

Fair employment practices must must be updated in the entertainment industry. It has been unfair for too long.

It's illegal to hire someone based on age, and since the majority of the entertainment industry uses IMDB as hiring metrics, anyone featured on the site should not have their birthdate or age listed on the site if they don't want it listed.

Absolutely agree! Thank you!

Thank you.

it's the right thing to do. my age is my business.

I've had clients loose work because of this.

There no reason to post anyone's year of birth get with the 21st century IMDB #WTF

Its illegal to hire based on age and take age into consideration. Time for it to be removed

I agree remove birthdays and ages from IMDB

Ageism is never justfiable.

It's ridiculous, but it's true. Having your age listed on IMDB can limit your chances at being hired as an actor. Particularly true for women.

Take the birthdays and ages off imdb! It's illegal to discriminate based on age and that's all it encourages!

I have been trying to remove my birthday, by request, from IMDB for 7 years. It does matter, especially in the entertainment industry. I dont look or play my age and would like very much to keep my options open... "How old do you want me to be?" I enteted by mistake after a tired move, and have been writing in ever since.

I did not have my birthdate with my IMDb account and then I took the advice of a young agent who no longer is an agent. I added it. When I later decided I wanted to not have it listed, IMDb would not let me remove it. It was as if I had sent my birth certificate which of course I never had and they have never seen it. I pleaded nicely in emails with them on several occasions speaking about the age discrimination and I followed the wrong advice and at the time I was also caring for a parent fighting cancer. They would not allow me to remove it. The birthdate is not some legal form or legal anything when people fill it out, there is no way to prove it is even correct so why not the let the person who pays for their account have the choice to not have it there? This seems like a deliberate type of job discrimination that IMDb is forcing on some of us by not allowing it to be removed when we find it is hurting our careers. In any other job interview asking the person's age is against the law and yet IMDb will not let a person make a change and delete it. When a person says they are married or divorced and are a middle class actor not famous, IMDb never asks to see a marriage or divorce license, just as they never ask for to have a birth certificate emailed to them.

This should have happened years ago!! IMDb is so fickle and there have been so many mistakes, delays, & missing jobs to my page.

I lost my job on Law and Oder because of this. I had a recurring part for 8 years and suddenly no calls. I bumped into a friend who worked on the show and he said "a decree came from LA. No one over 40 unless you play a Judge. (I was the head of their forensics team) I said: "How the Hell do they know I'm over 40?" "IMDB baby." that was 2008. I've been trying to remove my age ever since.

Please remove my age info. I never supplied it & never gave permission for it to be used.

never gave info. have tried to have it removed many times. please remove asap.

Yep

Drop the age profile .It is not good BUSINESS , Age discrimination is not right .Actors should be hired on their merit .Not Aged Out.

It's discriminatory to list birthdates!

Take off birthdays from IMDB. Leads to discrimination.

YES!! It is such a violation and often get information wrong... and refuse to correct it.

Thank you Ryan for creating this Petition!!

Have thought this was a good idea since first starting in the business and finding out that agents would type you in or out based, not on how you appeared, but by your birthdate! Sad!

You don't need an age and an official DOB to determine if someone looks like they can play a certain age for a certain role. That's the whole point. If they look it, they can.

Not only what's mentioned but having our DOB in a public profile page makes it easier for identity theft. I fought IMDB for this on my own and they are stubborn. A little money and power to bring them to court was going to be my next step. I totally agree on that age being there can cause job discrimination.

No Birthdates and Age on IMDB!!

It's about time. I have been discriminated against quite a lot because of their complete lack of Cooperation !!!

Member of SAG-AFTRA and AEA, and totally agree with this petition. Thanks!

Although i'm not a U.S citizen, i don't want to speak on the behalf of anyone since i don't live in the U.S, but as an Actor dedictated to this craft and passionate for this divine motion picture universe Hollywood land founded, i totally support all sorts of movements that are trying to abolish certain discriminations if it truely exists in this industry, and kindly add to that discriminations on certain nationalities, if it exists in any shape or form. Unconditional love and support to all of you out there, keep up guys.

YES PLEASE!!!

I've signed. And no one wants the birthdates removed more than me! But our union has been "gathering information" for literally a decade. And previous lawsuits have failed. So I really doubt a petition will have an effect. But --- Hey, I sure HOPE it does!

How old am I? Still the same age you thought I was when you saw my demo/photo that got me in the door.

Remove Birthdates & Age from IMDB

Please remove birthdates/ages from IMDB

I agree!

Recent headshot in hand and casting thought I was perfect. Then asked my age and I answered honestly. "Oh no! You're far too old to play Henry."

Dear IMDB, Please delete all references to birth days and dates for all actors on your site. Thank you.

Yes! Please remove my age from your site. My DOB is my business.

It's nobody's offing business how old someone is...and invasion of privacy.

I am a Character Actor,I am ageless!

This is very important.

Remove it

Mine has been wrong for years, and have tried to change it. It's just a ridiculous system you have.

I agree. How people look when they age varies. This is a highly ageist industry. Work should not be limited to a number but to whether or not an actor convincingly plays a certain age. Also, your date of birth IS personal information that can be used for identity theft.

This is an invasion of privacy that wouldn't be accepted if it was a national database of any other profession. And for this profession it costs us jobs. Please change this, our dates of birth are nobody's business.

It is only my business not everyones!

Please stop showing birthdates and ages. Think of it as: protecting at least a bit of privacy for people.

Totally agree we should remove this :)

Signed and shared!

There is so much sexism in Hollywood. This would be great to initiate. Perhaps people can suggest age ranges...which is how actors are cast anyway. Thank you!

I think if someone does not want to have their age on display then that is their right. It's also not ideal because date of birth can be used as a security question for various things.

This has been a long time coming, when you're just trying to make it you don't need your age to deter anyone from giving you a job...period!

SAG/AFTRA member. I would also like to see Wikipedia remove their birthdate info for working actors & writers.

This really plays into the hands of those who would discriminate against one because of one's age. Please remove our ages and birthdates, thank you.

Been trying to get this done for years. Even threatened legal action. Certainly lost opportunities thanks to ageism and IMDB!

Posting birthdays and age is an infringement of privacy, could affect casting, and is a security risk. They should not be listed on IMDb or similar sites.

I am an actor and this affects me personally. IMDb is frequented by casting directors to hire me. There are many laws state & otherwise that prohibit not/hiring based on age. The same should be applied to the entertainment industry.

It's no ones business to know someone's birthdate and age

I agree to this petition.

I fully support protecting privacy and ask imdb remove bithdates from the site

Remove birthdates and age from imdb to fight discrimination!

Remember Rebecca Schaefer... cross referencing ages helps the bad people.

It is restrictive to have our birth dates on and highly restrictive with the ageism in hollyeood

Please remove date of births on imdb. They are hindering work opportunities. The ability to work is one of our fundamental rights, which is embeded by this freedom of expression of imdb.

Thank you for setting this up. It is unfair to discriminate against women because of age.

If you look and fit the part, your age shouldn't be a factor. If age information is available, some people discriminate on whatever principles they arbitrarily happen to have. This shouldn't be posted publicly, since it can harm a career.

Far too -isms hurt actors' and other entertainers' careers. Since pretty much anyone can edit an IMDB entry, a lot of bad info gets approved (not to mention info the subject might not want up there in the first place). Because of the open edit feature (even if an entry needs IMDB approval), age should be removed.

Been asking for years.

REMOVE AGES! Some are listed some not. Not fair.

Put my age on my IMDB when I was young and dumb and have regretted it since. Actors have lost work over casting/directors/etc having looked on IMDB and seeing their real age opposed to how old they thought they were. Please remove the ages.... there's no reason for it to be on there.

A persons chronological age has little if anything at all to do with being chosen for a role. It's the age that the actor can physically and honestly pull off. that should be considered. That's it!!!

Please remove birth date information from IMDB! It is hurting our careers, especially as women in film!

I'm livid that because we are artists in this industry our private lives and information have become an open book. As if there aren't enough road blocks for talented people to make it in an artistic career, ageism has become made easier by the very info source of IMDb that has become industry standard for our work? Enough!

should be an option to show or not, identity theft issues

Nobody's business. I'm a teacher and think it's unfair someone has such personal information, including my students. Choice, people, choice. This gives other databases a free ride to have my age across their pages as they picked it up from IMDb, only they give me the right to remove my personal information, IMDb doesn't. NOT Constitutional!

Entertainment is all about illusion - posting facts like age about an artist is like posting the how-to details of a magicians' tricks online. We all lose.

I would love mine removed... it's not even correct!

yup

ATTENTION EVERYONE WHO HAS SIGNED THIS PETITION!!!! THIS WAS JUST EMAILED TO ALL SAG-AFTRA MEMBERS. -- Help Us Stop Age Discrimination Against Performers Dear Member, Age discrimination is a major problem in our industry, and it must be addressed. SAG-AFTRA has been working hard for years to stop the career damage caused by the publication of performers’ dates of birth on online subscription websites used for casting like IMDb. We are now in the final stages of securing the enactment of a California law that would help combat age discrimination by giving performers the right to request the removal of their date of birth when it’s included on online subscription sites. Currently, many websites used for casting proactively present birthdates and ages to casting decision makers who often can’t avoid seeing this information even if they try. That’s wrong for performers, just like it’s wrong for all employees. Let’s end this now. AB 1687 has passed through both houses of the California Legislature by overwhelming majorities. The final stop is Governor Jerry Brown’s desk. WE NEED YOUR HELP. We ask that you contact Gov. Brown right now with your personal stories of why this anti-discrimination bill is important. He will decide on this bill in the next couple of weeks, and we can't miss our chance to stop this harmful practice. Even if you don't live in California, we need your support. Enacting this law will benefit performers of all ages around the country. So please take a moment and make your voice heard. The most effective way to express your support is by mail or fax: Gov. Jerry Brown c/o State Capitol, Suite 1173 Sacramento, CA 95814 Phone: (916) 445-2841 Fax: (916) 558-3160 You can also fill out the governor’s webform here: https://govnews.gov.ca.gov/gov39mail/mail.php (NOTE: Choose “AB1687” as the subject when filling out the form.) The legislature has heard our voices. It’s time the governor does, too. AND, whi

Totally agree with this.

Stop age discrimination.

Stop age discrimination. Please!

Remove the personal information!

There is serious age discrimination in Hollywood. I am furious that IMDB posted my birthdate on my page and I can't do anything about it. In the age of identity theft, it is also not a good idea to have this information posted.

I myself would like this for months because of the fact that I can play younger and when my age is shown they just bypassed me

Please stop putting birthdates on our IMDb page! Thank you!

Thus is AGEISM, need to STOP

been asking this for years!

Remove Birth Dates & Ages

Please remove my birthday from my profile. Thank you!

We should have the option to include or remove our birthdate. It is not up to imdb to decide what personal information we share.

Age should not discriminate against or hold back a person from seeking a job opportunity. We ask that IMDB help by eliminating a persons age and birth year, to assist actors/actresses in finding work based on their "look" and "talent" alone. Thank you. Stacy Asencio-Sutphen

I am in support of this important cause

Remove ages

Remove the age of actors from your profiles.

I agree to sign this petition . It is not right .

Once IMDB started CHARGING for a service they even call their RESUME service - they should own up to the fact that no one, in any profession, lists their actual age on a resume. You also have complete control of that resume since that represents you professionally. The general public should not be allowed to add to or subtract from someone's professional resume. Also a customer service number of email would be nice !

Age discrimination is illegal. Yet many in the industry misuse age when hiring. IMDB, there's no need to list someone 's age!

Not trying to change Hollywood, what do I know :) Let it be about the talent too. In love.

Remove ages and birth dates, it's time for change.

This issue could mean the difference between getting a job and not especially for women and not only the ones over 40x

It's illegal for an employer to ask my age. It should be illegal for a website to list age/birthdate without permission of person.

In an industry rampant with ageism, this information can be (and often is) used against professionals. Any service that expects individuals to pay to manage their listing should provide this small bit of reassurance to their customers.

Please make this happen!

Ageism should not affect casting opportunities for the talent and beauty of actresses/actors.

nothing is gained by including and displaying BD/age on your website. it only harms talent.

My name is Danny and I approve this message.

I agree that age and birthdates should be removed since this certainly causes people to either loose parts or not even be considered for them, so it should be removed !!

Why should IMDb face ageism?

It should be the choice of the actor or actress to decide if they want there birthday displayed.

Please remove age and birth dates off the IMDB.

It's time.

Youth is wonderful but with age comes wisdom, experience and foresight!!!

Ageism and actors lives just don't work well when it comes to snap judgements. By showing the age in profiles, it allows a people tools to discriminate.

Writer/actor, supporter of all that is right

About Time!

Please lobby British equity too!

This is a discriminatory problem.

I, too, am in a giant back and forth with IMDb over this info I have worked my entire adult life to suppress. You can't find my personal info online anywhere, but suddenly you can find it publicly on IMDb--I am being held hostage to a site that could care less about me yet this is MY life, MY career.

There should be the ability to remove both age and place of birth. These are both factors that encourage discrimination.

This is a serious problem, and IMDb has been disappointingly uncooperative.

IMDB pro allows you to delete your birthdate but not IMDB, its about time to remove.

I am beyond horrified that they would put the age of someone on their period ask about their age range but not their age. Disgusting

About time to end this discrimination

Age should be removed it is irrelevant since your giving someone a "character." Only matters that they have the look and feel for what you need for a production.

Sign me petition

Age is just a number, remove that sh*t

They are violating my privacy rights and have affected my credit. THEY REFUSE according to "policy". I have contacted them several times. Future action will be taken.

my listed age has cost me at least 6-7 jobs per year! please stop age discrimination!

This has also cost me work

IMDB and Wikipedia have my WRONG DOB! And they still won't change it! How is this info not agist and, in my case, fraudulent. This should be banned. It's so disrespectful.

This is an industry where ageism is a debilitating fact. I want my date of birth taken off this site.

Please remove date of birth from imdb.

I fully support this petition!

it is private information. it is only on some bios, not everyones. but mostly. its a violation of privacy, unless amazon/imdb.com asks for permission

Not only do they have the incorrect year of my birth, but they also have my name misspelled.! I request from IMDB to have my birth date removed as well as correcting the spelling of my name MARKY BEY

Such an unfair practice.

Birth dates and ages of performers are completely unnecessary for casting purposes. It is critical that they be removed.

I am a teen actor who wishes to have my birthdate removed from imdb, I had a friend help me with adding it and as it turns out they wont let me delete my information which is wrong.

you have no right to safe and display my birthdate without my will. so take it off please

never trust imdb...!!! never ever put some private info in imdb because they dont respect your privacy !!

Please remove birthdate

Help!

No one wants to be left out of life only because of a birthday.

I definitely agree with the removal of age on IMDb as it directly relates to the age discrimination associated with the casting process of actors.

The message biards are so important for discussion of the art of filmmaking. There is no other way to do this for individual movies on social media. Please improve moderation and keep the message boards up. It is my favorite part of the site.

Keep the forum alive!

its a violation!!! so angry with this f*****imdb!! that they dont remove our date of birth. i wish they'll have to pay huge fines for the damage .. a******!

you dont need to know their 'ages' cause its ageism! its just unfair. let everyone be ageless and not deal with it!

I've lost work over them posting my birthdate. It is my personal business and I have a right to my privacy. They said if it's accurate, they have a right to post it. If I had cancer or HIV, should they have the right to post that, too? It makes no sense how they benefit from this and why they want to hurt our ability to provide for our families.

I would like to be taken off. I don't believe in lawsuits and didn't read the full extent of this.

how do i delete my signature. My name is still on the bottom of this page and I want it off.

Instead of complaining about not being cast because of your age why don't you use that energy for creating your own projects. we live in the age of digital technology where you can be the innovators of your dreams.

REMOVE BIRTHDATE FROM ANY LISTINGS.

Please remove my birthday, I am being discriminated against because of this, I understand if I was famous it wouldn't matter but I'm not and I'm not being considered for the role that I actually look like anymore. I didn't ask you to put my birthday up there and I don't know why it's up there, I'm not even a C list actress and you have my age displayed forecasting directors and producers to discriminate against.

It's hard enough getting work. We should be cast because of what we can play, not because our date of birth.

This needs to happen.

Why isn't every actor signing this? I see actors with tons of big credits and no forced birthday on their page and then I see actors with hardly any credits or maybe a ton of indie credits and their birthday is forced on their page, so why is IMDb not forcing all B Days onto the pages? Why are some forced and some are not forced? Where are they getting this info and why aren't they getting it on all of the people?

i just want my age removed from imdb, don't understand why this shouldn't be a free choice of any individual.

If you request your age to be removed, they should remove it. A law was passed that they must remove the age of actors if an actor or entertainment worker requests it. If they're not doing so, they are breaking a law. http://deadline.com/2016/09/jerry-brown-signs-law-requiring-age-info-removal-from-imdb-on-request-1201825810/

IMDB is evil and disgraceful.

I have submitted a request twice to no avail. This unbending nature by IMDB is not only detrimental to the livielhood of people in an industry that predicates a lot of its hiring decisions on a persons looks, as well as their age, the spreading of private information that would normally be keptexactly that "private", (Real Surname for instance)is dangerous to the imdb actor and their family from a public who want to get as close as they can to their favorite actor or celebrity.

My age shouldn't define me.

Please remove my birthday from IMBD. I am not an actress anymore, but i need to show this as part of my employment history, however, when i apply for other jobs i could be discriminated against due to my age.

Please add my name to challenge the outrageous policy of IMDB to post the birthdates of some actors and not others. it is arbitrary, capricious and down right mean spirited. Thank you for your efforts. Peter

REMOVE DATES OF BIRTH FOR INDUSTRY DISCRIMINATION

This is a total invasion of privacy.

Please remove my age from IMDB, as not only does it hurt my privacy, but since it was added, I have not been hired for work, as it hurts me and is blatant discrimination. Ageism is rampant in Hollywood, and this is financially devastating to me. Thank you.

IMDB is so horrible, Im all for a class action

this is a privacy issue. we have a right to remove our age.

I support this fully.

Putting people’s age, especially as the first thing you see, really encourages age discrimination.

Having DOB hurts actors. I also know as a fact a few people who's DOB was incorrectly reported and IMDB never removed or changed it after they proved that someone else gave the incorrect information.

One of my clients had to create a new IMDB because IMDB refused to remove her birth year. When we created the new account, I asked how to transfer her IMDB film credits to her new page, and instead of getting back to me, they transferred her old page which included her birth year, which we purposely left off on the new account. This puts a dart right through their argument that they can't remove birth dates/years if it was added by the account holder. However, we did not add it and they still refuse to delete it on the new account. IMDB needs to be sued by everyone on this list, not just a petition, a class action lawsuit. IMDB is not a free service, one has to pay for service, so therefore as an account holder who pays a fee, IMDB should honor the request of their clients. If they don't, everyone should just delete their accounts, and they will lose money. period.

invasion of privacy

I dont know who created my IMDB account, I fulfilled all conditions to change the date of birth mentioned on IMDB help page, and submit that atleast 25 times , but they are not taking any action

It's just the right thing to do. They haven't cared thus far, which is surprising.

I have been trying. I refuse to renew my IMDB until will as paying members have more control over our profile, such as deleting age, birth year.

I would like the option to remove my birthdate from imbd.

With age discrintaion rampant in the entertainment industry, beneath contempt billionaire Bezos owned IMDB has destroyed the careers & lives of thousands of film professionals over 50-years of age. I tried to get my own age deleted only to be ignored. I find their position ridiculous, and there and support any action vs these mercenary bastards.

It is well known that ageism is an issue in this industry, especially for women. Especially women who may not look their age. We should not be required to have that information published on a page that many people in charge of our careers frequently visit.

This should be illegal to force somebody to put the birthday on a public forum especially a job for him! IMDB is now allowing people to change their sex if they feel they are a man when they are actually born a woman etc. so, that’s not factual information if you have a penis you are a man so you should be listed as a male. If you can change the sex then you should be able to change the birthdate as well.

Enough is enough.

That is not only an invasion of people's privacy but also a crime. The fact that they are fighting the judge's decision doesn't give them the right to disregard the current law, hence they are legally prosecutable. If (and when) a judge will overrule the current law, then IMDb can decide to ignore people's requests. Until then, by disregarding the law they are committing a crime. People should not petition to ask IMDb to comply with the law, people should unite and sue them.

Please allow actors the decision

Its disgraceful and sex discriminatory, women far more adversely affected than men. imdb are arrogant and it would be so easy to remove it. DO THE DECENT THING! Respect privacy!

The fact that IMDb requires personal information such as birthdates to be listed just to have a profile on the site should be illegal to begin with. Also, how is it that some profiles don't have the same information listed? Is there some kind of preference to whom the information is required from?

As a former actor, and current federal employee, I find it insane that they have repeatedly refused my request to remove my year of birth from my IMDB page. I’ve repeatedly stated I’m concerned about my Personally Identifiable Information (PII) openly available on my page...they flat out will not remove it.

My playing age is younger than my actual age and not being able to remove this is potentially damaging to my career.

I’m not an actor. I work in casting. I want my birthdays off my IMDb.

Why are we allowing this? It's age discrimination!! We didn't opt in for that or provide our birthdays, they put it up without our consent! Why haven't we gotten better attorney's to beat this privacy issue?

Share this! We should be able to get 10k signatures easily!

This hurts actors because work is based on a number, on not what an actor can play. Please remove birth year.

Yes! I have been hoping for this for ages. Good luck with your work against age discrimination

I see a clear breach of contract by IMDb when one follows IMDb terms and conditions of the contract because the user has always the choice to provide or not to provide information; the “user can ALWAYS choose not to provide information” as clearly written, word for word, in the Privacy Notice in “What Choices and Access Do I Have?”. Note that this is one breach of contract among several of them I could point out right now!

This privacy notice before July 22, 2020: https://www.imdb.com/privacy/change/?ref_=pvc_1

should I also stress the "With Your Consent". In plain English, it means that IMDb needs the consent of the user.

With Your Consent: Other than as set out above, you will always receive notice when information about you might go to third parties, and you will have an opportunity to choose not to share the information; taken from the Privacy Notice prior July 2020. It means that IMDb needs the consent of the user before sharing the user's information

about time! Thanks for all the work on this.

What I don't understand with Amazon's IMDb behavior is this: Twitter, Facebook, LinkedIn have similar contracts to IMDb (same Conditions of Use, same license agreement, same clause) in which the user can add, and remove information, at will, pretty much, because the contract says so, and thus, it states the user's options or "choice" to provide or not to provide information in numerous clauses of the contract in which IMDb is in breach of, in total impunity shall I add (displaying the characteristics of a monopoly, anyway). All those companies offer a SUPERIOR service compared to the mediocrity of IMDb; that is, all those companies deal and provide information about any field, any job market, any entertainment news (including, stage play, musicals; eh, does "authoritative" IMDb do that? Don't think so), Twitter, Facebook, LinkedIn just to name a few, all provide important public information that help the public, about crime, about security, about travel, about local and international NEWS.Yet, inferior and mediocre IMDb decides it doesn't need to not abide by its contract because of what exactly? In addition, on rip off and untrustworthy IMDb service, some people can show their date of birth, but some don't have to. Some can show a bio, but others don't have to. I mean what kind of service is this. It would be like, consumers going to a shop and some are allowed to buy an apple but others can't. What kind of discrimination is that. A contract has to be applied to ALL the same way. A close look needs to be done at IMDb's operations from monopoly, to discrimination, including consumer breach of contract and discrimination laws vis a vis of who is allowed to do what in this site in my humble opinion.

Delete DOB. it's to even correct

So may incorrect Dob's on IMDB

How does IMDB dare at all publishing personal details on internet???? Or more likely Amazon ? Criminal act for sure !!!!

Ive tried over & over and IMDB wont remove my date of birth of city of birth

It's not about freedom of speech. It's freedom of privacy.

There should be a petition to campaign for the right to delete credits on personal imdb pages. Imdb doesn't allow to do that, and that is another violation of privacy.

Absolutely we should have the ability to do this

IMDB is just plain wrong on this one, and they are being stubborn about it, I wonder what they're gaining from alienating the people who pay them over a hundred dollars a year for subscriptions. why upset your customers?

My sentiments exactly, they pick and chose who's birthdays they display, that's completely odd to me.

I have been a SAG member for 40 years & my date of birth was never on the site until last week. I don't know how it even got posted but I would like it removed. It's a violation of privacy/

The problem with removing birth dates and age fields from IMDB is you make the person invisible. IMDB should allow a dummy (fake) birth date so your is searchable.

What about IMDb working hand in hand with the artists involved. Or what about IMDb respects the terms of the contract; those are probably unheard practices IMDb. I heard those charlatans are heading for court hearing next month February 8th. IMDb written as IMBD, in small claim court in King County court