Egghead Customer? Your Data Goes To Fry's

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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I got this email also

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My personal info was stolen some time back and was used fraudulently to purchase some items at egghead.com

I tried the link to opt out, but you have to have a user id and password to do this! I don't have them because the criminal who stole my CC created them.

As a result, there is no way for me to get them to remove my personal info, which wasn't supposed to be in their database in the first place!

Egghead.com was also cracked about a year or so ago. They have a very poor track record of safeguarding their customers' information.

Things like this make me want stricter privacy controls for personal information.

the changes that will take place in info

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Whether the data goes to Fry's or elsewhere, most data generated by virtual processes, and all other electronic transactions, will be used in ensuring security. This is especially likely due to Tuesday's tragedy.

Information's nature will change soon.

On NPR today, someone was explaining the use of electronic information as a possible alternative to ethnic, cultural, or social profiling of airplane passengers and other people who frequent public places.

The security officials would use credit-card data, bill and purchase data, phone records, and bank data in order to verify that you have an established address, haven't moved around too much or done anything that provokes suspicion.

In effect, we will all have different "clearance levels" in regular civilian society, which will decide for us whether we are stopped, interviewed, strip searched; what our freedom of movement and consumer activity will be; and what kinds of security-vital private sector training, such as computer or pilot skills, that we can enjoy.