Egghead Customer? Your Data Goes To Fry's

Posted by timothy on Saturday September 15, 2001 @06:23AM from the fry'd-eggheads dept.

An anonymous reader says: "I bought some things from onsale.com, which then became egghead.com. Somewhere in that time, their credit card database got jacked, for which they sent me a nice e-mail saying everything was ok. Now I've got a mail that I don't like at all, with the subject 'IMPORTANT MESSAGE REGARDING THE TRANSFER OF YOUR CUSTOMER INFORMATION.' Well. that's pretty much it. egghead.com info will go to Fry's Electronics, unless the customer explicitly requests that it not. How often does it happen that when a company goes under that they just sell their customer info and just not tell anyone?" Here are links to the Egghead info page and privacy and security policy.

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The big question is... by caseydk · 2001-09-15 06:26 · Score: 3, Funny

So who owns Fry's? Is it Disney or MS or AOL-TW?
Nothing to see here. Move along. by Anonymous Coward · 2001-09-15 06:32 · Score: 3, Funny
1. Egghead is warning you a priori
2. You can opt-out
3. If you don't opt-out, Fry's (or whoever actually ends up as top bidder) will still be bound by the original privacy agreement you agreed to
4. what more do you want from them? $100 and a blowjob?
Re:No way things can change... by BrookHarty · 2001-09-15 06:45 · Score: 3, Funny

Exactly, we should opensource all Terrorist movements.

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GPL isnt only for software anymore!
Why not buy it from some Russian hacker? by fmaxwell · 2001-09-15 07:25 · Score: 4, Funny

If Fry's really wanted the egghead.com customer database, why didn't they just buy it from some 15 year old Russian hacker?