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.