Re: PRIVACY: Amazon revamps its policy

From: Adrian Tymes (wingcat@pacbell.net)
Date: Sun Sep 03 2000 - 15:13:42 MDT


"Robert J. Bradbury" wrote:
> Please confirm IN WRITING, that you will abide by this policy. To wit
> I expect a statement of the general form:
>
> "Amazon.com confirms that it WILL NOT sell or transfer your name,
> email or postal address or order history to any other corporate entity
> or organization without your express permission."

Just to get the point across, I'd change that to:

> "Amazon.com confirms that it WILL NOT sell or transfer your name,
> email or postal address, credit card number, or order history to any
> other corporate entity or organization without your express
> permission."

CC numbers are, after all, part of the order history, and they have been
reported as one of the "assets" that Amazon.com has considered selling.

(Disclaimer/loophole: of course, technically they do have to send CC
numbers to other organizations for processing. If customers raised a
big stink about this, confused between this lending of CC numbers and
sharing CC numbers with parties who charge for stuff you didn't buy,
then forced Amazon to stop as a result...no more Amazon.)



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