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Re: [privacy] Sears Exposes Customer Purchase History in Violation of Its Privacy Policy
From: "Dude VanWinkle" <dudevanwinkle () gmail com>
Date: Mon, 7 Jan 2008 20:49:15 -0500
On Jan 7, 2008 6:31 PM, Juha-Matti Laurio <juha-matti.laurio () netti fi> wrote:
From Ben Edelman's Web site:
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1) Go to the Sears "Manage My Home" site, www.managemyhome.com . Create an account and sign in. [Screenshot.] 2) On the Home menu, choose Home Profile. In the Search Purchase History section, choose Find Your Products. [Screenshot.] 3) Enter the name, phone number, and street address of the customer whose purchases you wish to view. Press Find Products. [Screenshot.] Sears then displays all purchases its database associates with the specific customer -- typically major appliances and other large purchases." ---clip-- Later on Friday the post was updated 'Update (January 4, 5pm): Sears has disabled the search feature described above.' ---clip-- http://www.theregister.co.uk/2008/01/07/sears_privacy_classaction/
Its nice to know that idiocy, when not involved with government, can actually have repercussions. Thanks "Yoo Ha", -JP _______________________________________________ privacy mailing list privacy () whitestar linuxbox org http://www.whitestar.linuxbox.org/mailman/listinfo/privacy
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