How Target Figured Out A Teen Girl Was Pregnant Before Her Father Did

Re:How Target Figured Out A Teen Girl Was Pregnant Before He... by pyre on Thursday February 16, 2012 @10:53PM (#3602036)

I do find it an invasion of privacy. I just take issue with this statement:

  they effectively took it upon themselves to disclose
  to her father that she was pregnant

Mostly with the 'took it upon themselves.' I'm pretty sure that this was an unintended consequence. It just goes to show you that when you do these things you're really playing with fire, and you can't be so cavalier.

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Re:How Target Figured Out A Teen Girl Was Pregnant Before He... by jgw on Thursday February 16, 2012 @11:06PM (#3602075)

Yes, you're right - I concede your point.

"They effectively disclosed to her father that she was pregnant"

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Re:How Target Figured Out A Teen Girl Was Pregnant Before He... by njharman on Friday February 17, 2012 @01:48AM (#3602461)

> invasion of privacy

Like most, you have a naive and non-legal concept of what privacy is. Analyzing public behavior (shopping) and sending mail to your public address isn't even close to the realm of privacy.

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Re:How Target Figured Out A Teen Girl Was Pregnant Before He... by pyre on Friday February 17, 2012 @02:45AM (#3602566)

  > you have a naive and non-legal concept
  > of what privacy is

I'm curious as to why your immediate response was to claim that I don't know anything about the legal concept of privacy.

1. This is not a court.

2. Very few of us are lawyers.

3. Nobody is talking about criminal charges or civil suits.

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Re:How Target Figured Out A Teen Girl Was Pregnant Before He... by janardanyri on Friday February 17, 2012 @02:18AM (#3602515)

Who said it was about legality? Substitute "decency" for privacy if you prefer, the point is essentially the same.

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Re:How Target Figured Out A Teen Girl Was Pregnant Before He... by chii on Sunday February 19, 2012 @06:58PM (#3610785)

There is no law that requires anyone (least of all, a corporation) to be decent.

Which is why the parent comment about legal issues is apropo. That, is what will be, and only be, considered.

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