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Account Sharing Detection

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Your question is Account Sharing Detection. Take a moment with it on the right.

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Problem

How would you figure out if two households are sharing an account?

Explain how you would distinguish legitimate travel, second-home usage, and device changes from likely sharing. Treat this as a practical analytics exercise: define the metric, identify the data needed, describe the analysis, and explain how you would validate the signal without penalizing legitimate members.

Requirements

  1. Define a household-sharing metric and its unit of analysis.
  2. Identify behavioral signals and thresholds you would investigate.
  3. Describe how you would measure precision, false positives, and business impact.
  4. Recommend an incremental response or experiment.

Data Available

Assume access to account, profile, streaming-session, device, location, playback, and customer-support data.