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RadioShack is selling your personal data

article published on 24 March, 2015

Earlier this year, RadioShack declared bankruptcy after years of declining sales and failed attempts to rebound. Besides selling physical locations, trademarks and other inventory, the company is also selling off 65 million names and physical addresses in addition to 13 million email addresses - personal data that could be greatly valuable to a top bidder. Reportedly, RadioShack's ... [ read the full article ]

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_ 		25. March 2015 @ 01:45 _ Link to this message    Send private message to this user   
The fact any company would do this is absolutely despicable! Rot in hell Radio Shack! Your doors need to be closed.
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_ 		25. March 2015 @ 03:02 _ Link to this message    Send private message to this user   
when i was working at Circuit City we had to purge all user information from our systems. the law must have changed in the last 7 year, besides the fact that this is even legal should be of more concern.
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_ 		25. March 2015 @ 04:19 _ Link to this message    Send private message to this user   
Tend to agree it's not good if the customers names are not going to be used other than what they were originally meant for (i wonder what legalese was on any papers that were signed & if it included what's happened that names could be transferred),unless another buyer intended to open a similar style store/s.
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