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Skriven 2006-03-21 13:49:36 av Rich Gauszka (1:379/45)
Ärende: Ticketmaster 'privacy policy'  sham
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From: "Rich Gauszka" <gauszka@hotmail.com>


http://www.gripe2ed.com/scoop/story/2003/7/24/84435/6284

The reader had become annoyed with the amount of promotional e-mails he'd been
getting from Ticketmaster ever since he'd purchased concert tickets at
ticketmaster.com. In the process of opting out of their e-mail "newsletter,"
the reader examined Ticketmaster's privacy policy and was struck by this
section:

"By purchasing a ticket, or completing a registration form so that you are able
to access a purchase page for a ticket, to a concert, game or other event on
the Site, you consent (i.e., you opt-in) to us sharing your personal
information with the venues, promoters, artists, teams, leagues and other third
parties associated with that concert, game or other event ("Event Partners").
We cannot offer you a separate opportunity to opt-out, or not to consent, to
our sharing of your personal information with them. Event Partners may use your
personal information in accordance with their own privacy policies, and may
consequently use your personal information to contact you and may share your
personal information with others. You will need to contact those Event Partners
who contact you to instruct them directly regarding your preferences for the
use of your personal information by them."

Ticketmaster says they're just functioning as an "agent" for those clients who
have "the desire and the need" to collect all this information about us. It's
an odd kind of agent relationship though, since we only get to know the agent's
privacy policies and we can't even be sure who and how many clients are getting
this open-ended access to our information.

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