Report: Radio Shack To Sell Customers’ Personal Information In Bankruptcy Sale

CBS: NY ^ | March 25, 2015 5:18 PM

[mowowie]

When you go shopping, you probably think stores will keep your personal information safe and secure.

But now, a report says Radio Shack is ready to auction off customer information as part of its bankruptcy sale.

As CBS2’s Dick Brennan reported, the report says Radio Shack is ready to sell information they have on some 117 million customers, including names, addresses, phone numbers and other details on purchases.

This despite the Radio Shack privacy policy, which says “We will not sell or rent your personally identifiable information to anyone at any time.”

And some consumer experts say what Radio Shack is doing is nothing new.

“People are looking at Radio Shack now and they are gonna vilify Radio Shack,” said consumer expert Paul Viollis. “But at the end of the day, Radio Shack isn’t doing anything all other major corporations haven’t been doing for many years.”

[Paladin2]

Cash is still King.....

[DemforBush]

“People are looking at Radio Shack now and they are gonna vilify Radio Shack,” said consumer expert Paul Viollis. “But at the end of the day, Radio Shack isn’t doing anything all other major corporations haven’t been doing for many years.”

Except that RS has explicitly stated it has a policy against doing that. Kind of a difference there, don’t you think?

This is one of the reasons I always hated going to RS, btw. You don’t need my name and phone number when I’m just there to buy flashlight batteries.

[a fool in paradise]

Someone should tell the Just Us Department.

OPERATION CHOKE POINT: Tipton Questions FDIC Cutting Off Bank Accounts Gun Stores, Small Businesses
ColoradoPeakPolitics ^ | March 24, 2015
http://freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/3271911/posts

The head of the FDIC faced tough grilling today from members of a House Financial Services subcommittee including U.S. Rep. Scott Tipton on a rogue policy that essentially directed banks not to deal with businesses the Obama administration found objectionable.

Dubbed “Operation Choke Point,” the Justice Department essentially directed the nation’s top financial regulator to intimidate banks into cutting off accounts or doing any business at all with a list of 30 different types small business owners.

The list included gun shops, ammunition dealers...

Ammunition Sales
Cable Box De-scramblers
Coin Dealers
Credit Card Schemes
Credit Repair Services
Dating Services
Debt Consolidation Scams
Drug Paraphernalia
Escort Services
Firearms Sales
Fireworks Sales
Get Rich Products
Government Grants
Home-Based Charities
Life-Time Guarantees
Life-Time Memberships
Lottery Sales
Mailing Lists/Personal Info
Money Transfer Networks
On-line Gambling
Payday Loans
Pharmaceutical Sales
Ponzi Schemes
Pornography
Pyramid-Type Sales
Racist Materials
Surveillance Equipment
Telemarketing
Tobacco Sales
Travel Clubs

[Frank_2001]

The Obama administration objects to dating services, escort services and pornography???That will REALLY tick off his base! /s;)

[dead]

They have my phone number from when I was 12 and bought batteries!

[a fool in paradise]

Surprised ebay and facebook aren’t on that list.

[jy8z]

Whenever an outlet asks me for personal data, I give them the local zoo info. I always laugh as I walk out of their door.

[P-Marlowe]

I always told them my name was Johnny Cash.

[Not now, Not ever!]

I wonder what they will get for Hurcumer Slodbocker’s phone number?

[Bernard Marx]

This is one of the reasons I always hated going to RS, btw. You don’t need my name and phone number when I’m just there to buy flashlight batteries.

I believe that stupid policy helped lead Radio Shack to bankruptcy. I simply quit buying anything there because of it. I don't think I'm the only one.

[pepsionice]

If they actually had 117 million active customers....they wouldn’t be bankrupt. This is probably every single customer they had since 1969, and half of them are dead.

[bluejean]

“This is probably every single customer they had since 1969, and half of them are dead.”

Yeah - but now they’ll be resurrected as democrat voters. Good stuff.

[dadfly]

it’s wrong, but...everybody’s doing it...so...its okay, right?

no. it’s flat wrong and there will be consequences for all involved in the wrongdoing. didn’t your momma ever tell you two (or a hundred) wrongs don’t make a right.

[PA Engineer]

Except that RS has explicitly stated it has a policy against doing that. Kind of a difference there, don’t you think?

This is one of the reasons I always hated going to RS, btw. You don’t need my name and phone number when I’m just there to buy flashlight batteries.

I agree and feel very bad it there was a James Smith with a phone number of XXX-XXX-XXXX.

[catnipman]

“Whenever an outlet asks me for personal data, I give them the local zoo info. I always laugh as I walk out of their door.”

I like to give OBVIOUSLY false information just to see if they are stupid enough to accuse me of being a liar, which of course is REAL fun if they do, because then I can exclaim in outrage, “Are you calling me a LIAR?”

[gigster]

Give them the address and telephone number of
Wrigley Field.

[ScottinVA]

The clerks at RS always wanted to squeeze as much personal information as possible out of customers, even for the smallest of purchases.

[USARightSide]

When signing with my VISA card, I pretend I’m writing (while saying out loud-)
‘J e n n i f e r A n i s t o n’ or ‘M a r t h a W a s h i n g t o n’
I believe the ‘machine’ would take it - doesn’t matter -

[ThePatriotsFlag]

Amazing...this my thanks for being a loyal customer for 25 years.