Borders Bust Means B&N May Get Your Shopping History 230
coondoggie writes "To perhaps no one's surprise, Borders bookstore collected a ton of consumer information — such as personal data, including records of particular book and video sales — during its normal course of business. Such personal information Borders promised never to share without consumer consent. But now that the company is being sold off as part of its bankruptcy filing, all privacy promises are off. Reuters wrote this week that Barnes & Noble, which paid almost $14 million for Borders' intellectual assets (including customer information) at auction last week, said it should not have to comply with certain customer-privacy standards recommended by a third-party ombudsman."
Re:R.I.P. Borders (Score:4, Funny)
It's a troubling sign of the times, I don't like seeing brick 'n' mortar book stores going belly up, I loved to spend a few hours on Saturday afternoons looking around.
An easy problem to solve.
1) Download several of these [google.com]
2) Set one of those photos as your computer's desktop image
3) Glance at your desktop background occasionally while you do your shopping at Amazon.com [amazon.com]