Netflix has now changed its privacy policy so that it no longer retains rental history for people who have left the video site. The move comes as the result of a class-action lawsuit filed against the company, alleging that Netflix unlawfully kept and disclosed such information of former customers. (So as a former customer, now I can rest assured that Netflix won’t tell anyone that I rented Star Trek: Insurrection back in the summer of 2003. Sweet!)

Netflix did not immediately respond to requests for comment.

The policy change was announced to former customers by e-mail on Monday by the organizers of the class-action suit, who have set up a website: videoprivacyclass.com.

“Netflix has agreed to change its data retention practices so that it separates (known as “decoupling”) Entertainment Content Viewing History (that is, movies and TV shows that someone watched) from identification information for those subscribers who have not been a Netflix subscriber for at least 365 days, with some exceptions,” the e-mail states.

Back in 2010, the company settled a privacy suit over subscriber information with a closeted lesbian subscriber who was worried that she might be outed if her subscription history were disclosed.

According to the settlement, Netflix—which denies that it has committed any wrongdoing—will pay out $9 million into a settlement fund. $2.25 million of that will go to attorneys’ fees, $30,000 to be split between the two named plaintiffs, and the rest going to charitable donations. TechDirt called the lawsuit “a bit silly" (which as far as I'm concerned, is a bit of an understatement).

Just to recap: Netflix apparently wronged me (but says it didn’t) for something that I didn’t even know about. So as a result, it’s paying out millions of dollars in a settlement, and other than the policy change, nothing’s changed for me. Um, that’s good, right?