Verizon is Selling Your Personal Data

Re:Verizon is Selling Your Personal Data by knighthacker on Tuesday October 09, 2012 @04:22PM (#4633728)

wow. At least they gave you the option to opt-out haha :)

[ Parent | on HN ]

Re:Verizon is Selling Your Personal Data by jonah on Tuesday October 09, 2012 @05:30PM (#4634061)

Except the law and their own wording requires opt-IN:

"...we need your permission to share this information among our affiliates, agents and parent companies (including Vodafone) and their subsidiaries."

[ Parent | on HN ]

Re:Verizon is Selling Your Personal Data by FireBeyond on Thursday October 11, 2012 @01:28PM (#4641783)

Somewhat - to them anyway, permission is "granted" by you choosing not to opt-out. It's a crazy, muddled-up, mixed up world.

[ Parent | on HN ]

Re:Verizon is Selling Your Personal Data by jug6ernaut on Tuesday October 09, 2012 @04:44PM (#4633836)

"Option"? IMO this should be illegal, but i'm sure there is some clause in the contract which allows such use.

[ Parent | on HN ]

Re:Verizon is Selling Your Personal Data by jmedefind on Tuesday October 09, 2012 @04:47PM (#4633852)

I do like how it's illegal to sell a person video rental history, but totally fine to sell information that shows everywhere they are at anytime of the day.

[ Parent | on HN ]

Re:Verizon is Selling Your Personal Data by wmf on Tuesday October 09, 2012 @05:12PM (#4633969)

When some Congressman gets busted by this we'll probably get a Mobile Privacy Act.

[ Parent | on HN ]