Online Clearinghouse Offers To Defend Privacy 30
jfruhlinger writes "Privacy may have become a hot-button issue in the Internet age, but the Privacy Rights Clearinghouse has been fighting against corporate privacy violations for 20 years now. Today, they've launched an online complaint center that will hopefully help keep your private data private. Fill out the online form and the PRC will follow up with the privacy compliance officer at the company in question, or investigate whether a complaint to a government agency is in order."
My complaint (Score:3, Insightful)
I was going to file a complaint against every website on the internet that requires a "registration" in order to use the fucking thing and then I clicked on the online form [privacyrights.org] link and decided against it.
When you collect information on people, it will be abused. Somehow, someday, somewhere ... some entity, usually corporate, will get a hold of it and use it to your detriment. The entire credit industry is a perfect example of this. And they spawned the corporate Big Brother, ChoicePoint, that our government uses to spy on Americans to get around that pesky Constitution and the "activist" judiciary.
Another example is the health insurance industry. Get prescribed an anti-depressant for any reason you become uninsurable. How do they know? Pharmacies share all that data about your prescriptions with the insurance companies, among others.
Goddamn them all.