Telstra Denies Selling BigPond Customers' Data

Red Wolf writes "The Age reports that allegations that Telstra sells email addresses of BigPond customers have been denied by the telco. Melbourne-based IT worker Mark Edwards had doubts in this direction when he began receiving unusually large amounts of spam at his bigpond email address. Edwards grew suspicious because some of the spam being issued to him was also addressed only to a number of users within the bigpond.com domain, indicating that the unsolicited mass emailings were being sent to lists of BigPond users."

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Re:OMFG, it's a conspiracy. Someone call slashdot!

[Elbereth]

I only read the YRO articles so that I can laugh at the paranoid slashbots.

ALERT! ALERT! PUT ON TIN FOIL HAT! POSSIBLE CONSPIRACY DETECTED!

Notice that the privacy geeks are usually the worst offenders in violating our privacy, too. They post our social security numbers on the web, just to show that it's possible. Corporations don't do that shit, because they know there'd be a huge public outcry. But we can't do anything to the privacy geeks.

I say we send the lot of them to Alaska. They'll be harmless there.