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Corporate Spam

Posted by michael on from the spam-in-a-nice-blue-blazer dept.

Thu Anon Coward wrote: "Yahoo has a story about the SEC investigating the spamming of financial institution customers by corporations." Interesting. The law in question allows financial institutions to share (sell) a bunch of personal data about their customers to other companies such as insurance firms and stock brokers. Pro-privacy groups opposed it at the time. If the companies are actually using that information to send spam email...

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  1. How nice... by autocracy · · Score: 2

    Now the law says they can give out my permission without my say so. Privacy is a lost cause...

    I can't be karma whoring - I've already hit 50!

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