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   ClipHead (cliphead@social.cologne)'s status on Sunday, 08-Dec-2024 22:52:50 JST ClipHead

   • Cory Doctorow

   "The only thing worse than having wasted all that time and energy would be to have wasted it — and learned nothing." - @pluralistic

   https://pluralistic.net/2023/08/06/fool-me-twice-we-dont-get-fooled-again/

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     Yet another Josh :donor: (crankylinuxuser@infosec.exchange)'s status on Sunday, 08-Dec-2024 23:50:32 JST Yet another Josh :donor:

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     • Cory Doctorow

     @ClipHead @pluralistic

     Its not just that, though.

     Say a company DOES do right, even through hardship. Like.... #RadioShack .

     They collected untold amount of #PII from people with "name address phone#" even for simple battery purchases. Did they do anything with it? Only internally.

     Well, that is until #bankruptcy court. Radio Shack defended keeping the PII private because thats how it was given to them, in trust.

     The bankruptcy court INSTEAD said that PII was worth X million, and was to be sold. End of discussion.

     If a court refuses to acknowledge privacy rights, and informed consent, and instead goes "well fuck that its works loads of money", well, yeahh. The whole enchilada is untrustworthy.

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     Tom Bortels (tbortels@infosec.exchange)'s status on Monday, 09-Dec-2024 06:30:12 JST Tom Bortels

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     • Cory Doctorow
     • Yet another Josh :donor:

     @crankylinuxuser @ClipHead @pluralistic

     It's not quite as bad as described.

     "Ultimately, a settlement was reached and the sale of customer information was approved, but in truncated form. RadioShack agreed to limit contact information to email addresses only, and only those that were active in the two years prior to the bankruptcy filing. Additionally, transaction data was reduced from 21 fields to 7. The purchaser agreed to abide by RadioShack’s privacy policies and to require affirmative assent to any material change to them. The settlement also provided that customers would receive a notice of the transfer of their information and an opportunity to opt out."

     https://privacylaw.proskauer.com/2015/10/articles/ftc-enforcement/the-legacy-of-the-radioshack-bankruptcy-and-the-importance-of-pii/

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     Tom Bortels (tbortels@infosec.exchange)'s status on Monday, 09-Dec-2024 06:30:12 JST Tom Bortels

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     • Yet another Josh :donor:

     @crankylinuxuser @ClipHead @pluralistic

     FWIW - Radio Shack collected name/address originally because direct mail marketing was super effective. We're talking US Post here, the radio shack catalog with the coupon for a free flashlight, and hey, we sell batteries you might want for it. We'd see store visits go up like crazy the day the catalog hit. It sounds like the scope crept significantly after I bailed.