'Comfortable About Our Compliance'

But virtually every company (banks and credit reporting agencies are the worst) whore out their customer information. As much as it may suck, it's to be expected.

Unless, citizens and/or customers band together with a unified voice to address their concerns with the local and/or state legislator to pass additional laws to protect the citizens and/or customers from such blatantly mischievous TOS agreements that companies demand from customers, we are screwed! With so many companies restricting what you can and cannot do in their TOS, even if you decide against signing it you cannot find another choice since practically all companies have these written into their TOS. The only way to protect the consumer is to pass laws. IMO

Disclaimer: I'm not a lawyer, I cannot and will not state every angle of my opinion. There are statements that are meant to be gathered through observance of subject matter and practicality of implementation.
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Bad canadians, bad, bad, bad canadians!
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What the Gramm-Leach-Bliley Act should have done was forced an explicit opt-in by the consumer, versus the disclosure and opt-out approach that it ultimately took. The snowball has been rolling downhill ever since.

That's just the way it goes at Disneyland on the Potomac...

My point is you can't stop it. There aren't enough people willing to give up services...especially essential services like banking to try to accomplish what you're looking to accomplish. On the flip side...until corporate contributions are banned, you'll not be able to get laws to stop this passed. They just simply have more money to buy influence than we do.

how many do you think will give up the connection-- even if they dont ever change the- tos -or make it worst then it is
now

i say few very few

seems we are hooked on a fast life now and the big dogs know it

so now they will push it too the edge and after that we will all jump off the cliff if they say so
and that is how bad its gotten

We really don't give a damn if our customers like it, we are doing it.

What really ticks one off is the fact that OUR confidential information can be shared with every one in the whole friggin USA and every low life business. But, Joe America can not get any information about himself. But everyone else knows everything about him.

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We should all incorporate and find out all the information about everyone we know!

Just need to compile a dossier on elected officials. Al Qaeda and its identity-thieving ilk can take care of the rest.

I think someone already launched a website somewhere to that effect.

They just simply have the ability to make it part of the requirement to get service. All of these companies know simply if you need the service, you'll have to accept the provisions of the service, or you simply won't have the service. So either you agree to them doing what they are doing, or you don't have the service.

Ok, cable isn't a nessicity-but power, water, and usually phone are considered pretty nessacary-if your power company wants to do this, you'll have to accept it, lest you want to live without power (and get evicted since 99% of cities require power and water/sewer for a home to be considered "habitable").

Nobody will, which is exactly why they did it-people want their cable and cable modems. Thus they will just have to accept it or cancel (a few will, but probably will go back when they can't find anything to fill the void it creates).

You can use the same analogy at a grocery store with "cards", you can give the info, or pay regular price, or go to a place without them. Course, they also don't verify the info you give them, giving you another option-one that comcast doesn't exactly give you

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But, Joe America can not get any information about himself. But everyone else knows everything about him.

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All you have to do is to contact each of the three national credit reporting bureaus (Equifax, 800-685-1111; Experian, 866-200-6020; & Trans Union, 800-888-4213) and ask for a copy of your credit report. The law does allow them to charge a small administrative fee for the report. Several states allow you to get one free report every 12 months, the automated systems at the above telephone numbers will tell you if there is a charge or not for a copy of your report. I live in a state that requires free reports, and while doing this note I ordered copies of my reports from each of the numbers listed above.