Customer Data Up For Sale In Radio Shack Bankruptcy Auction Wednesday Mar 25 2015 08:26 EDT As Radio Shack moves to auction of its assets in bankruptcy auction -- a unique asset is up for sale as part of the process: the customer data of some 117 million customers. This data was supposedly protected by a privacy policy claiming "we will not sell or rent your personally identifiable information to anyone at any time," resulting in a legal challenge by the states of Tennessee and Texas. Joining them in their legal challenge is AT&T, who filed an objection in Delaware bankruptcy court stating they wanted the data returned or destroyed: quote:
In a filing Friday, Dallas-based AT&T said details of its agreement with RadioShack, which has been in effect since June 29, 2005, and other confidential information, belong to AT&T and its customers. That information was in RadioShack’s hands to fulfill their obligation under the almost 10-year-old agreement, “and not so that they could provide or sell this information to third parties, including AT&T competitors."
Bloomberg notes that some 13 million e-mail addresses and 65 million customer names and physical address files are going to be part of the sale process unless these challenges succeed. |
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2015-Mar-25 8:57 am
So What?I am on RadioShaft's address list and any company who buys it may very well have me declare their emails SPAM and be banished for eternity in my GMail SPAM box. And anyone who honestly believes those disclaimers that your information will never be sold or rented must have just arrived on this planet. | |
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