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Web Firms Choose Profit Over Privacy

Posted by michael on Tuesday July 1, 2003 @08:43AM from the surprise-surprise dept.

An anonymous reader writes "Web Firms Choose Profit Over Privacy details the tactics of retailers and marketers to sell customer data. Examples include promising not to sell consumer data, but then 'renting' the data, and the use of shopping cart software with different privacy policies than the merchant."

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And they winder why... by TyrranzzX · 2003-07-01 09:15 · Score: 1, Redundant

people are afraid to shop online. Advertising is just the start; some porn companies sell cc card data and the offshore buyers commit cc fraud. It's happened to a few people I know and they get $20-200 charges their cc company won't cover.

Online retailers will get away with anything they can and then some, doesn't matter if it's legal or not. The FTC lost it's teeth awile ago and unless that changes things can only get worse.

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