Suppose you trade in a car at a dealership, then weeks or months later, whoever ended up with the car found out your name, business address, and phone number from the dealership, and started harassing and threatening you because of problems with the car.
Would that bother you?
The REAL problem is that the dealership failed to protect the privacy of one of it’s customers, and will have to pay a steep price for their dishonesty and/or carelessness.
I had that happen to me once. I had traded my 88 Chevy 3/4 ton in 93 for a new F250 Diesel and they in turn sold it to some used car lot. Some folks got my info of the registration and they were considering buying the truck. They called me up and said they saw it on the lot and asked me how it ran and a bunch of other stuff and I was pretty evasive. But they were real persistent and called me back again the next day and finally I got pissed and told them it was the biggest POS lemon that ever was made, less than 75,000 miles and went through 2 engines, 4 radiators, and new front end rebuild every 25,000 miles, etc, and told them to run away from it then I hung up...