I did get informed too by Barnes and Noble asking for opt out options.
Nicole Williams
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From: Linda Hahola <[log in to unmask]>
To: [log in to unmask]
Date: 10/11/2011 01:54 PM
Subject: Re: No E-mail About Your Borders' Shopping History Being
Sold? (Or, How Privacy Protection Measures Can Backfire) -
Forbes
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I"ve received two emails about this so far.
ý"She packed up her potential and all she had learned, grabbed a cute
pair of shoes and headed out to change a few things."
curlygirldesign.com
On Oct 10, 2011, at 2:41 PM, PeterK wrote:
> No E-mail About Your Borders' Shopping History Being Sold? (Or, How
Privacy
> Protection Measures Can Backfire)
> Barnes & Noble snatched up the list of 45 million people for almost
$14
> million<
http://www.bizjournals.com/boston/news/2011/10/03/barnes-noble-buys-borders-data.html
>.
> But privacy watchdogs insisted on a condition to the sale: those
customers
> needed to be informed that they had the right to opt-out of having
their
> data transferred from one bookseller to the other.
>
> That’s easy, right, since the set of data includes all those folks’
e-mail
> addresses? Well, not exactly…
>
>
> http://onforb.es/p1L4sZ
>
> Source:
>
http://www.forbes.com/sites/kashmirhill/2011/10/10/no-email-about-your-borders-shopping-history-being-sold-or-how-privacy-protection-measures-can-backfire/
> See if people are clicking on this link: http://onforb.es/p1L4sZ+
> Try the bitly.com sidebar to see who is talking about a page on the
web:
> http://bitly.com/pages/sidebar
>
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