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Amazon Sharing Private Info
by Maarten Goldstein, Sep 01, 2000 11:59am PDTSince everyone is emailing us about it, might as well mention it. Amazon has announced it sees customer information as a company asset , an asset that can be sold without problems. So if they would like, sell off some of its stores, it will sell along customer information as well. Also partner stores can get the customer information from Amazon, which hasn't been the case up till now. What information is being given out hasn't been announced.
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It seems to me that what separates Shugashack from Stomped and Blue's News (not that I don't enjoy and respect both those pages) is that Shugashack isn't constricted by a set of unspoken bylaws. Topics that interest readers get greater attention; topics that don't, don't.
Personally I'd like to read a bit more about RPGs and space sims, but I sure as hell don't want to read it here if the subject doesn't interest the people writing about it and never starts an interesting discussion.
But then, we're all a bit too comfortable to really do anything about it, aren't we.
no longer will I buy anything there.
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And it came in the mail with a broken case. Argh.
Think it should be a law that no information is traded or sold without a person's consent or a guardian's consent if underage. This would prevent mass tree killing, pre-determined labelling of a consumer, etc.
Here's an interesting read - The Privacy and Anonymity Myth: http://ecommerce.internet.com/solutions/tech_advisor/article/0,1467,9561_438031,00.html
http://www.ecofuture.org/ecofuture/jmtips.html#genguide
Write the Direct Marketing Association Mail Preference Service, and credit bureaus
Contact all of your credit card companies and tell them not to release your name, address, or phone number to anyone else for marketing, mailing, or promotional purposes.
Similarly contact your credit union, mortgage company.
Contact all magazines you subscribe to.
Contact mail-order companies you have done business with.
Contact all organizations you belong to, universities, and schools.
Contact airline frequent flyer and hotel programs you belong to.
Contact your cable TV company and long distance telephone carrier. Just about anyone who sends you a bill will sell your name.
If you move, don't fill out the Post Office's standard change of address (COA) form. Tell everyone yourself. COA information will be provided to third parties. If you must file a COA form, make it a temporary change lasting less than a year. This way, the information will not be entered into the permanent COA database and released to others.
Contact your phone company and change your listing in the phone book. Request that your name only be listed without your address (most phone companies do this without charge).
The Consumer Fair Credit Reporting act gives consumers an amazing amount of rights. You'd be amazed what you can do to pevent companies from selling your name.
1. Opt Out: Write The big three credit bureus and Opt out of their Credit sharing policies.
800 685-1111
www.equifax.com
800 682-7654
www.experian.com
800 888-4213
www.transunion.com
Opt out of Double click: http://www.doubleclick.net/company_info/about_doubleclick/privacy/privacy2.htm
Sign up for a DO Not solicit with your Phone company. I can't believe this service costs money, but I pay for it. By law they have to add you to a list of numbers that people cannot call you to sell things at.
Get busy!
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I haven't seen a spasm like that since the girl in elementary school had an epileptic seizure (sp?) at the desk next to mine.
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Now go buy something online and take it like a man!
Anyway, I bet they see credit card numbers as an asset and sell them too ;-)