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December 19, 2005
What companies do with your personal data should be your business!
(Posted by francois to: privacy )Today I received a letter from ABN AMRO Mortgage Group Inc. saying:
"We are writing you to let you know that a computer tape containing information about you and your mortgage account with ABN AMRO has been lost while being transported by DHL courier service to a credit reporting company."
They did offer me 90 days of free credit service monitoring with Truecredit, a TransUnion service - but that web site seems to be down.
To me, this is truly worrisome. I wish the government would implement stricter rules on privacy and on who controls what happens to our personal data. By signing a mortgage with ABN AMRO or any other provider, I should not automatically sign away my rights to what happens to my personal information. Why is it that ABN can chose to ship my personal information on a tape via DHL to a third party? If indeed the sharing is needed to enable the commerce to function, why are they not forced to use dedicated money transport vehicles and services - which they use to transport their own stuff? But more importantly - why cannot I have a say in this?
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Comments
I think the people affected by this outrages misuse
of our personal data should push for a class action suit.
Posted by: Greg at December 20, 2005 10:14 AM
I think I should be given the option by vendors of whether (a) they can share my information, and (b) if they do share my information with my permission, they should then pay me a percentage of whatever they earn based on their selling of my information. See here:
http://ddmcd.squarespace.com/display/ShowJournal?moduleId=140085&categoryId=17818
Dennis D. McDonald
http://ddmcd.squarespace.com
Posted by: Dennis D. McDonald at December 20, 2005 12:05 PM
