Whitney MerrillFrom Canada: Home Depot collected customer emails at store checkouts for providing customers w/ an electronic receipt since at least 2018, but also sent the encoded email, along with high-level details about each customer’s in-store purchases, to Meta. https://www.priv.gc.ca/en/opc-news/news-and-announcements/2023/nr-c_230126/
Honestly, I'd love to see more actions against bad privacy practices of in-person retailers. The practices described above between @[email protected] & Meta are very common, but customers think they're giving their email over for a single purpose: email receipt or worse email marketing.
They have no idea that their receipt data will be used to match them up with their Facebook account and then used to serve them ads.
Retailers sell all sorts of data about what you purchase, and no one ever talks about how invasive and hidden those practices are.
Fritz Adalis@wbm312
Everyone should start using the ceo's email address.
Everyone should start using the ceo's email address.
Tony@FritzAdalis I love this idea - do you have his address?
run_atalanta@wbm312 Some of us have been waved off by others for years trying to point out this crap for years. Banks explicitly have the right in their privacy policies to use your personal info to share with third-party and affiliated companies -to “provide information about products and services” that you cannot opt out of! Credit Card companies have been doing this for many decades. #YouAreTheProductBeingSold
Alun Jones@wbm312 A really fun part of Home Depot's electronic receipt capability is that it DIDN'T prevent them from printing you a paper receipt. Your choice was either printed receipt, or printed receipt PLUS email receipt.
Eric Neustadter (e)@wbm312 gross. I wish I was surprised.
corbeaucrypto@wbm312 I would appreciate it if corporations would stop justifying my paranoia.
GirlCroosh@wbm312 Ugh. I didn’t want to be proven right.
Thorium@wbm312 Yet another reason not to shop at Home Despot. Their co-founder MAGA supporter is enough for me. I will never shop there.
Harold Daniel 🌞 🇺🇦@wbm312 This makes me angry. I shop at Home Depot. They have my email and I purposefully avoid Facebook /Meta. Privacy laws are inadequate.
aardvark@wbm312 burying the lede—Meta failed to establish consent for use of PII
SensibleOtterAbsolutely huge, and this needs to be legislated against. Everyone from the big box down to the mom and pop’s get caught up in this.
Data resale through ‘loyalty’ info is massive and super intrusive.
GATEKEEPER@wbm312
Sounds like Zuckerberg was buying data from Homie
Sounds like Zuckerberg was buying data from Homie
scribandotcom@wbm312 Well, that sucks.
John CarlsenThat Zucks, too.
Goose@wbm312 Unbelievable, can't get away from Facebook.
kttxus@wbm312 and that's why I say no every time a store wants to email me a receipt...
Camille Tschaggeny@wbm312 - #FilthtyGreedyBastards don’t give a fuck about being “caught”.
Zee
Charles@wbm312 everytime I hear a story like this I think back to a business class that already had incorporated the "dad finds out about daughter being pregnant because coupons are sent to their house" story as a lesson about the power of marketing and where the line should be.
The Home Depot/meta story further enforces the idea that business cannot, will not, and have no incentive to self-regulate. If we follow the "corporations are people" logic, then they are some of the most narcissistic, selfish, psychotic, and greedy bastards out there.
DrBob, 🧠 Mechanic@wbm312 Goes along with the news that the Home Depot CEO is a right wing nutcase!
#homedepot #berniemarcus
https://fortune.com/2022/12/29/bernie-marcus-home-depot-woke-people-socialism-labor-shortage/
#homedepot #berniemarcus
https://fortune.com/2022/12/29/bernie-marcus-home-depot-woke-people-socialism-labor-shortage/
