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FTC Recommends Conditions For Sale of RadioShack Customer Data
itwbennett writes: The FTC has weighed in on the contentious issue of the proposed sale of consumer data by RadioShack, recommending that a settlement with failed online toy retailer Toysmart.com be adopted as a model for dealings going forward. Director of the FTC's bureau of consumer protection Jessica L. Rich wrote in a letter to a court-appointed consumer privacy ombudsman that the agency's concerns about the transfer of customer information inconsistent with RadioShack's privacy promises "would be greatly diminished if certain conditions were met." These include: that the data was not sold standalone, and if the buyer is in the same lines of business, they agree to be bound by the same privacy policies.
But if we are the product, can we sue for our share of the payout?
Since only coprorations are now people and people are not people, we'll all have to form little corporations of course, in order ot get our due.
The shepherds did so well protecting the flock that the sheep no longer believed that wolves existed.
I knew that my information would get out eventually. In the last 15 years I would only go in to buy specific things (none in the last 5+ years). Every time I would pay cash and give the clerk false information. I'm so very glad I did.
I hope there's not really a John Q. Public living at 1 Happy Street*, Beverly Hills, 90210. If so... apologies in advance, mate.
* From My Blue Heaven
"What the frig is the address here?"
"How should I know... Number One Happy Street!"
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