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RadioShack Stops Being Nosy
jackbang writes "One small but positive step in the gradual erosion of personal privacy and increase of corporate intrusiveness - RadioShack will no longer ask for your name and address when all you want to do is buy some batteries. Now if only they would agree to remove the motion sensor that rings a bell every time someone walks in or out of the store..." Always freaked me out being asked my address just to buy some solder or something.
How hypocritical is it that Slashdot runs stories critical of RadioShack for asking information about their users (easily denied, by saying "No", or providing phony information), but forces its own users to register and provide a working email address, in order to post or moderate ?
The solicitation of email addresses by Slashdot is not excusable by reference to bots harvesting phony logins, or somesuch, because they have ANOTHER mechanism to do this (displaying images and asking users to type the text contained in the image).
This seems a classic case of the self-righteous pot calling the kettle black.
How fast will this get modded down, I wonder ?