Sears, K-Mart SPIES on its Customers


	Sears, K-Mart SPIES on its Customers

leevardi

9-27-2009 8:07 PM

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9-27-2009 8:41 PM

clip-on-tie

Good. Why isn't Walmart doing the same?

9-27-2009 9:40 PM

jmatts78

How is that a good thing? They have no right to people's private information.

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</FONT><P><FONT size="3" color="#000099">It's not just hackers who steal financial and medical information:
</FONT></P><P><FONT size="3" color="#000099">Between April 2007 and January 2008, visitors to the Kmart and Sears web sites were invited to join an "online community" for which they would be paid $10 with the idea they would be helping the company learn more about their customers. It turned out they learned a lot more than participants realized or that the feds thought was reasonable.
</FONT></P><P><FONT size="3" color="#000099">To join the "My SHC Community," users downloaded software that ended up grabbing some members' prescription information, emails, bank account data and purchases on other sites.
</FONT></P><P><FONT size="3" color="#000099"><A target="_blank" href="http://www.schneier.com/blog/archives/2009/09/sears_spies_on.html">http://www.schneier.com/blog/archives/2009/09/sears_spies_on.html</A>
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