Boing Boing reader Chris Hoofnagle of EPIC says:
As part of my work at the Electronic Privacy Information
Center, I scan direct marketing publications to see how
companies are selling your personal information. This data
sale appeared today in Direct Marketing
News. It proposes to sell the personal information of those
who subscribe to "an online digital music community...These consumers pay
anywhere from $9.00 to $19.99 a month to gain access to a diverse catalog of
over 500,000 music downloads in a variety of genres from top independent
labels." The "datacard" says that the company has race, age, gender, religion,
and income information on the subscribers. I'm wondering what music subscription
site is selling their members' data! Would anyone at the in the Boing Boing
community know what company it is?
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