Topic: Ranking the Worst Comsumer Privacy Infringers.

[mistybear]

Top 10 Big Brother Companies: Ranking the Worst Consumer Privacy Infringers

How much would you sell your private data to a company for?  Would you take $100 to let someone see every site you have visited over the past year, how about $1,000? Today, many major companies spend millions collecting a variety data on individuals such as; what charities you donate to, your political beliefs, your shopping habits, your educational data and your contact information.

Unfortunately, you never get to decide how much your privacy is worth to you, because these companies aren't asking your permission.

In this article we highlight ten of the worst corporate offenders when it comes to invading privacy.

While we aren't so naive as to think that this sort of exposure is enough on its own to cause any real changes in corporate behavior, we hope that by helping to bring to light some of the personal privacy infringements that these companies are engaged in, more people will begin to select the companies they do business with on the basis of their privacy policy. If that starts to happen, real consumer-driven change is possible.

So without further adieu, here are the top ten big corporate privacy offenders:

http://www.businessintelligencelowdown.com/2007/02/the_top_ten_pri.html

[Clive]

Very scary!