I've never been to Canada and don't own a car.
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I've never been to Canada and don't own a car. There is absolutely no reason the Canadian Tire company should have any of my data. But I'm still part of their data breach.
This is such a good example of why privacy is important: because your data is sold, and resold, and resold, to third party companies that are all potential victims.
@pgl It is absolutely unreal. The extent of the ad surveillance networks is almost incomprehensible - I've found that when I chat with people who aren't already part of privacy conversations, they truly have no idea how far-reaching this all is.
Also, we're soorry.
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I've never been to Canada and don't own a car. There is absolutely no reason the Canadian Tire company should have any of my data. But I'm still part of their data breach.
This is such a good example of why privacy is important: because your data is sold, and resold, and resold, to third party companies that are all potential victims.
@pgl Just want to add a small correction that Canadian Tire, despite the name, sells much more than car parts. You can buy pretty much everything at Canadian Tire. Kitchen supplies, garden stuff, bikes, candy, halloween decor. I realize that non-Canadians do not know that.
But agree on your point.
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@pgl Just want to add a small correction that Canadian Tire, despite the name, sells much more than car parts. You can buy pretty much everything at Canadian Tire. Kitchen supplies, garden stuff, bikes, candy, halloween decor. I realize that non-Canadians do not know that.
But agree on your point.
@renata Oh! Fair enough. Interesting name then!
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I've never been to Canada and don't own a car. There is absolutely no reason the Canadian Tire company should have any of my data. But I'm still part of their data breach.
This is such a good example of why privacy is important: because your data is sold, and resold, and resold, to third party companies that are all potential victims.
@pgl Schools are such an easy victim of this, too! So many different apps, a different set each year! Every one wants an account and their app on your phone. And they charge a 20% processing fee for every ticket to see your kid’s school game! Dystopian!
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@pgl Just want to add a small correction that Canadian Tire, despite the name, sells much more than car parts. You can buy pretty much everything at Canadian Tire. Kitchen supplies, garden stuff, bikes, candy, halloween decor. I realize that non-Canadians do not know that.
But agree on your point.
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@renata Oh! Fair enough. Interesting name then!
@pgl They started selling tires for cars, then things that people would buy while they were getting their cars serviced, then realized other people were coming to buy those things, not only the people who had cars, and I think these days they have more stores without car services than the other way around.
There's one near me that doesn't sell car parts, for instance. The name persists.
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@hub @pgl Exactly. More here https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Canadian_Tire
They're a huge business. Why your name is in there, that is the question.
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I've never been to Canada and don't own a car. There is absolutely no reason the Canadian Tire company should have any of my data. But I'm still part of their data breach.
This is such a good example of why privacy is important: because your data is sold, and resold, and resold, to third party companies that are all potential victims.
@pgl the fact that some random retailer has more records than there are humans in the country they operate in… burn it all down.
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I've never been to Canada and don't own a car. There is absolutely no reason the Canadian Tire company should have any of my data. But I'm still part of their data breach.
This is such a good example of why privacy is important: because your data is sold, and resold, and resold, to third party companies that are all potential victims.
@pgl within two weeks of starting a new job, my never-been-used phone was receiving sales cold calls and I received a letter to my work email notifying me of a data breach at a broker in California
Reader, I am in the Nordics
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I've never been to Canada and don't own a car. There is absolutely no reason the Canadian Tire company should have any of my data. But I'm still part of their data breach.
This is such a good example of why privacy is important: because your data is sold, and resold, and resold, to third party companies that are all potential victims.
Here I go wandering over to Wikipedia wondering if they own some American brands and I should be looking out for a similar email, but nothing jumps out at me.
Except apparently as of last year, they own the intellectual property of the Hudson Bay Company (est. 1670).
(PS, thanks for the block list! I just realized your name shows up on my computer nearly every time I click a link in an email.)
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