Vermont Goes Opt-In, Corps Unhappy

jeffy124 writes: "Beginning Feb 15, a new Vermont consumer protection law takes effect requiring companies doing business with people in VT to require opt-in before they can sell/share that customer's personal information. Naturally, companies aren't happy, and trade groups are suing the state, claiming the law will raise costs of doing business and hurt consumers."

Comments

Hurt consumers?

[Sivar]

Ya, all sorts of horrible things happen to me when companies can't sell my personal information. :)

Those poor consumers

[Ed Avis]

Instead of adapting systems to meet the state's rules, they are warning that Vermont residents may be excluded en masse from the kinds of offers and information that data sharing allows.

Oh, how my heart bleeds for the deprived residents of Vermont.

I like it

[jchawk]

Here's something you can do to fight snail mail spam in your state. When you receive a piece of junk mail, open it and take out the pre-paid postage envelope. Now open a second piece of junk mail and take it's contents and stuff it into the first pre-paid envelope. Repeat, Repeat, Repeat with every piece of junk mail you get. Then take them and mail them back to the fuckers who sent them.

Think about it, they are paying twice to get 0 results. :-)

screwed up

[pubjames]

Naturally, companies aren't happy, and trade groups are suing the state, claiming the law will raise costs of doing business and hurt consumers.

I'm a bar owner and I've decided the sue the state because not serving beer to juniors makes them unhappy and is hurting my profits.