Please obscure my contact information if you post this to politech; you can refer to me as simply "Erik". I got a message from an IT research vendor to whom I gave a business card at a trade show recently. The representative uploaded my contact information to a site called cardscan.net. This site in turn sent me an email on the representative's behalf stating that I was being asked to update my information and that others who may also have my information and who use Cardscan's services would also receive the updated information. I was given the chance to opt out (sounds kinda spammy, don't it?) and I did. Their privacy policy (http://www.corex.com/privacy.asp?csnet=1) seems at first glance to be privacy friendly but I still have a few problems with the concept of the service in general: - I am not given the chance to opt in - Personal data is transferred without my knowledge or consent - Opt-out is the default Do you know of anyone else who might have complained about this? Am I being too overly privacy-sensitive? Is the mention of this service worthwhile to Politech readers? Thanks, [x] _______________________________________________ Politech mailing list Archived at http://www.politechbot.com/ Moderated by Declan McCullagh (http://www.mccullagh.org/)
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