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- From: adam@sparkle.uucp (Adam Shostack)
- Newsgroups: comp.org.eff.talk
- Subject: Re: Ticketmaster privacy
- Message-ID: <1992Sep15.201835.7810@das.harvard.edu>
- Date: 15 Sep 92 20:18:35 GMT
- Article-I.D.: das.1992Sep15.201835.7810
- References: <74.2AB599C1@puddle.fidonet.org>
- Sender: usenet@das.harvard.edu (Network News)
- Organization: Aiken Computation Lab, Harvard University
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- In article <74.2AB599C1@puddle.fidonet.org> Brian.Schuth@f346.n101.z1.fidonet.org (Brian Schuth) writes:
- >For all you privacy paranoiacs out there (myself included)...
-
- >The other day I was ordering tickets from Ticketmaster. After taking
- >my order, my address, my phone number, and my credit card number (my
- >privacy-violation-ticker edging toward the red already, but hey, what
- >could I do?), they proceeded to ask me a varie >ty of questions,
- >culminating in their new "survey"--who would I vote for for President?
- >I was surprised enough that rather than hassling the operator, I
- >merely said I would not answer the question, and hung up.
-
- They only gave me three choices, too. I wanted to say Paulson, but
- they wanted to list that as undecided... :(
-
- They take your name & address to mail you the tickets, or contact you
- if there's a problem. I don't really care about ticketmaster getting
- my name & address, if I did, I'd pay cash. I'd worry when they ask
- for my SSN.
-
- >What possible use could this survey have from a scientific
- >standpoint? The cohort is self-selected and representative of just
- >about nothing. I can't come up with any plausible reason for this that
- >doesn't send me south to Conspiracyland.
-
- I think they might be doing something with MTV's "Rock the Vote"
- campaign. I'm not going to worry about it, I got good seats for the
- Jethro Tull show.. :)
-
- Adam
-
-
- Adam Shostack adam@das.harvard.edu
-
- What a terrible thing to have lost one's .sig. Or not to have a .sig
- at all. How true that is.
-