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Do credit cards hand out email addresses?

bignickel

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Someone I know went into a store for the first time and bought a few items using Discover. Later that night, or this morning, they got an email from the store thanking them for their purchase. They did NOT give the store their email address.

Could Discover have given the email address to the business? Thoughts? This person never gives out their email address.
 
bignickel said:
Someone I know went into a store for the first time and bought a few items using Discover. Later that night, or this morning, they got an email from the store thanking them for their purchase. They did NOT give the store their email address.

Could Discover have given the email address to the business? Thoughts? This person never gives out their email address.
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Discover has their email address. The store basically subcontracted the email through Discover. It doesn't necessarily mean that the store now has their email address, though you'd have to read the T&Cs to be sure.
 
They all give away whatever data they please. If it's in violation of law, sue them. Good luck demonstrating damages for a thank you, though.

Publicly accessible databases are remarkable, too. Im.about as low profile online irl as you can be, but Google my name and my emails come up, phone numbers, addresses, relatives, the works.
 
arthwollipot said:
Sure. I don't take steps to conceal it though. It's not even hard to guess if you don't already know it.
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Are you TwunklePhaaart_8675309 at yahoo.com?!?! OMG!


edited to take out automatic fricking "email" tag. Who does that?! WTF?
 
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Thermal said:
They all give away whatever data they please. If it's in violation of law, sue them. Good luck demonstrating damages for a thank you, though.

Publicly accessible databases are remarkable, too. Im.about as low profile online irl as you can be, but Google my name and my emails come up, phone numbers, addresses, relatives, the works.
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You can go to each one of those sites and go through the process to have that information removed. They are not entitled to it and if requested it has to be taken down from their site. I did it for a handful of different sites and they all removed it in a pretty reasonable amount of time.

If you're interested, of course. I periodically go through and google my name and then another search with my phone number and go to each site to request it be removed.
 
You want to see something creepy? Look at how much data can be collected about you simply by who you are in proximity to.

On a related note, has anyone used one of those services lioke DeleteMe or Incogni? They sort of seem like VPNs in that, sure they can protect your data from third parties, but you're still trusting them with it.
 
plague311 said:
You can go to each one of those sites and go through the process to have that information removed. They are not entitled to it and if requested it has to be taken down from their site. I did it for a handful of different sites and they all removed it in a pretty reasonable amount of time.

If you're interested, of course. I periodically go through and google my name and then another search with my phone number and go to each site to request it be removed.
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The problem is, opt-out systems are usually made to be tedious, at best. Most people simply don't have the time to go through that nonsense or even realize how much data is being collected or how its being used
 
Donal said:
The problem is, opt-out systems are usually made to be tedious, at best. Most people simply don't have the time to go through that nonsense or even realize how much data is being collected or how its being used
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Sure, nothing to argue with there. It's a trade-off depending on how much time you want to commit.

To me it's worth it because I have a criminal past and I work for a local government. I don't want people getting information easily.
 
plague311 said:
You can go to each one of those sites and go through the process to have that information removed. They are not entitled to it and if requested it has to be taken down from their site. I did it for a handful of different sites and they all removed it in a pretty reasonable amount of time.

If you're interested, of course. I periodically go through and google my name and then another search with my phone number and go to each site to request it be removed.
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Yes, and I've done so, occasionally. What was surprising was how much they got. I expected my junk email (for bull **** store accounts and stuff) and my business email to be easy to fund, but the sons of bitches had stuff I wasn't breathing a word about. Like, an Edu address came up that wasn't registered or connected to me in any way (it was in fact mine, but it was a breadcrumb email with a fake name that I never accessed through home wifi or cel, burner on public wifi only). It's a little spooky.
 
I regularly get email to a woman with the same kast name and first initial. Looking her up shows that she lives in the same area I did 25 years ago and has a street address with the same 4 digits. And the street name is close. A lot of partial matchinig going on.

I've even recieved physical mail addressed to her at my POB.
 
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They found at the bottom of the email: "Square", and realized that the store clerk scanned the credit card with one of those Apple side scanners that they like to hang off monitors and laptop screens.

They clicked the link "unsubscribe" and got to a page, asking: receive no more emails from this particular business? Or receive no more emails from "Square" altogether? They chose the latter.
 
plague311 said:
Sure, nothing to argue with there. It's a trade-off depending on how much time you want to commit.

To me it's worth it because I have a criminal past and I work for a local government. I don't want people getting information easily.
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In Australia opt-out has to be simple by law. At least they passed that bill without any problems.
 
bignickel said:
They found at the bottom of the email: "Square", and realized that the store clerk scanned the credit card with one of those Apple side scanners that they like to hang off monitors and laptop screens.

They clicked the link "unsubscribe" and got to a page, asking: receive no more emails from this particular business? Or receive no more emails from "Square" altogether? They chose the latter.
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The fun part is, now that they don't get the emails, they don't know who is data collecting on them, but they for damn sure still are.
 
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