RadioShack puts customer personal data up for sale in bankruptcy auction

Re:RadioShack puts customer personal data up for sale in ban... by BetaMechazawa on Thursday March 26, 2015 @04:31AM (#9268369)

Is this an American thing? Because I've never had my bank, my provider, my health care etc sell any of my data (at least as far as I know).

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Re:RadioShack puts customer personal data up for sale in ban... by whyever on Thursday March 26, 2015 @08:05AM (#9268942)

It is a German thing as well: The Telekom sells mobile user data [1] (link in German).

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Re:RadioShack puts customer personal data up for sale in ban... by jeffwass on Thursday March 26, 2015 @06:26AM (#9268678)

How would you know?

Do you have a credit card, and have you read the pages of fine print?

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Re:RadioShack puts customer personal data up for sale in ban... by icebraining on Thursday March 26, 2015 @07:16AM (#9268804)

Maybe (s)he has decent data protection laws in his/her country. I'm pretty sure this would be illegal in the EU, under the Directive 95/46/EC.

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Re:RadioShack puts customer personal data up for sale in ban... by skidoo on Thursday March 26, 2015 @08:03AM (#9268932)

That is adorable.

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Re:RadioShack puts customer personal data up for sale in ban... by icebraining on Thursday March 26, 2015 @08:16AM (#9268969)

Thanks, darling.

To make myself clear, I'm not saying they don't do it. I'm saying it's probably illegal, therefore the fine print doesn't matter.

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