Pop Quiz: Can The Pizza Delivery Place Sell Your Personal Information Without Your Consent? - Consumerist Comments

Pop Quiz: Can The Pizza Delivery Place Sell Your Personal Information Without Your Consent?

darkryd — Tue, 20 May 2008 11:14:17 EDT

Ohh Ohh!

That gives me an idea.

Somebody should create a "catch all" address and offer it up to the public.

One phone number and address we could all give to these places as our own. Kind of a like a junk email address, but in physical form.

darkryd

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darkryd — Tue, 20 May 2008 11:11:25 EDT

Pay in cash and give bogus information. Plain and simple.

darkryd

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RandomHookup — Tue, 20 May 2008 10:16:08 EDT

@Trai_Dep: Well, that's because so many of the mom & pop places are fronts for the mob.

RandomHookup

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Trai_Dep — Mon, 19 May 2008 14:32:29 EDT

I'd be interested to see how many Mom&Pop pizza places sell you out versus the chains. I'd bet a fraction, a miniscule one.
Yet another reason to avoid the chains...

Trai_Dep

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HRHKingFriday — Mon, 19 May 2008 14:17:56 EDT

Cool, so now that we all order Pizza online, they won't be getting our personal information!

/sarcasm

HRHKingFriday

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Logical Extremes — Mon, 19 May 2008 14:07:08 EDT

How do I surveille thee?* Let me count the ways...™
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Logical Extremes

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MisterE — Mon, 19 May 2008 13:40:48 EDT

This is why I give a false phone number whenever asked. Not only that, I'm unlisted. Sometimes I give the local number to Best Buy, Circuit City, or a local radio station.

I can do what I want with phone numbers too :)

MisterE

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no.no.notorious — Mon, 19 May 2008 13:25:16 EDT

false, once you give your information to the company they can do whatever with it. i had this issue at toys r us (with phone numbers).

no.no.notorious

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BrianU — Mon, 19 May 2008 13:10:02 EDT

There were pizza companies running names through police wanted/warrant data-banks a couple of years ago, and probably still do. The pizza places received a percentage of any fines collected etc. It seems that a lot of wanted people for all matters of law infractions still order pizza, and of course give their current location to get it delivered.

BrianU

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homerjay — Mon, 19 May 2008 13:07:40 EDT

No no no... I think that came out wrong. I didn't mean we should just open ourselves up to invasions of privacy. I just don't understand what useful information any organization would get from the pizza guy that would be worth paying for.

homerjay

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ViperBorg — Mon, 19 May 2008 12:43:49 EDT

@Ryan H: Unfortunately, the elected asshats in our government are too busy banging hookers, getting kickbacks, attempting to destroy network neutrality, sucking up to the RIAA, and kissing Bush's ass to care about our personal privacy.

ViperBorg

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LionelEHutz — Mon, 19 May 2008 12:42:48 EDT

It's not that hard to be smarter than your average Californian.

LionelEHutz

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Cogito Ergo Bibo — Mon, 19 May 2008 12:39:02 EDT

I wonder how much value the calling information has if you have to weed out the phone numbers on the national "Do Not Call" list. Sure, the government might have a use for the information (who knows what they want to know or why; can't be good, but not a clue why they need it), but I'd think that the marketing possibilities by phone should be minimal for those on the list. Otherwise, ka-ching! DNC-list violation!

Cogito Ergo Bibo

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mwdavis — Mon, 19 May 2008 12:37:14 EDT

It turns out that large amounts of consumers have no idea that it's perfectly legal . . .

I believe that it is "numbers of consumers" not "amounts of consumers" from a Speaking English Correctly viewpoint.

mwdavis

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Red_Eye — Mon, 19 May 2008 12:36:20 EDT

When I worked at a newspaper the #1 source of phone numbers for marketing calls was the Garbage company, everyone (virtually) has trash service and those that didn't had cable, phone, or water. Pretty much covers the bases.

Red_Eye

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edosan — Mon, 19 May 2008 12:27:26 EDT

"The answer of course, is "false." If you managed to guess correctly, you're smarter than the average Californian."

Well, we have a slight advantage that the question is being asked on a consumer rights website (so we can pretty much guess which way this is going to go) while the original quiz probably had this in with a bunch of other questions in a more neutral environment...

edosan

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fuchikoma — Mon, 19 May 2008 12:20:22 EDT

Ouch. In Alberta, Canada we have the Freedom Of Information and Protection of Privacy act (FOIP or FOIPP) that among other specific things says you can't disclose 2+ pieces of personally identifying data without someone's consent.

So a pizza place MIGHT (if not for other laws) be able to say "we delivered to a guy whose number is 555-1234" But if they said "Bob Smith, 555-1234" they'd be so far out of business they'd never come back.

fuchikoma

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Ryan H — Mon, 19 May 2008 12:10:38 EDT

For what it is worth, I voted 'true' and was right. In Canada we have a wonderful thing called the Personal Information Protection and Electronic Documents Act (PIPEDA). Under it, businesses and organizations require explicit permission from individuals for any use or storage of their details. It is s truly excellent act.

Ryan H

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heavylee-again — Mon, 19 May 2008 12:07:47 EDT

@homerjay: Is this really a problem? Show of hands, how many of us are under investigation for any reason?

What kind of information are they getting from the pizza guy that they can't get out of a phone book besides my desire for pepperoni?
What if a person chose to not be listed in the phonebook for any reason?

heavylee-again

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uncle_fluffy — Mon, 19 May 2008 11:58:03 EDT

@homerjay:

Well done, citizen! Nothing to hide = nothing to fear!

Only the bad people want to protect their privacy. They should be ashamed of themselves. If you know any of these privacy loons, please call 1-800-55-STASI.

uncle_fluffy

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dragonfire81 — Mon, 19 May 2008 11:56:16 EDT

Pizza places deliver to a wide variety of customers, there's no particular market they target well. I wouldn't really value a list of names provided by a pizza joint if I was trying to effectively sell a product to a certain group of people.

dragonfire81

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Juggernaut — Mon, 19 May 2008 11:53:36 EDT

@boones farmer: I've been doing the same thing, almost as long, but it started with making tee-time reservations and using non-golfer friends names.

Juggernaut

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stre — Mon, 19 May 2008 11:44:49 EDT

wow, are 25% of consumerist readers really naive enough to guess "true"? i guess it's better than the 54% of californians who answered "true", but it still sucks. what kind of a story would it be if pizza delivery places threw away your information?

@homerjay: they can tell where you've been and when if you order a pizza.

stre

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Buran — Mon, 19 May 2008 11:44:40 EDT

@Corydon: Chekhov is the playwright, Chekov the navigator. ;)

Buran

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Buran — Mon, 19 May 2008 11:44:20 EDT

@LatherRinseRepeat: Yeah, a long time ago before I knew that, I almost fell victim to a scam (didn't know better about fees for contest prizes) arising from one of those. I walk past them now without entering, and a nastygram got the "fee" refunded to my card.

Buran

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Corydon — Mon, 19 May 2008 11:39:13 EDT

@boones farmer: You didn't play Chekhov on Star Trek by any chance, did you?

Corydon

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Steaming Pile — Mon, 19 May 2008 11:36:00 EDT

I operate on the principle that anyone who possesses this precious information will sell it whether he or she has permission or not. So should you.

Oh, and the correct pronunciation of Koenig is KER-nig.

Steaming Pile

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homerjay — Mon, 19 May 2008 11:34:06 EDT

"information is used by private investigators and by governments to track individuals."
Is this really a problem? Show of hands, how many of us are under investigation for any reason?

What kind of information are they getting from the pizza guy that they can't get out of a phone book besides my desire for pepperoni?

homerjay

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RandoX — Mon, 19 May 2008 11:30:39 EDT

@boones farmer: I always use Napoleon Dynamite.

RandoX

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SkokieGuy — Mon, 19 May 2008 11:27:41 EDT

Some day lawmakers will identify that a person's person information and any value that information can create is the property of that person.

The information cannot be bought, sold or distributed with the identify-owner's permission and / or compensation.

It applies to movie stars and celebrities. I guess the current laws do not provide equal protection.

This just in - pigs cannot fly.

SkokieGuy

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LatherRinseRepeat — Mon, 19 May 2008 11:26:12 EDT

And to add to the list.. those free car raffles you see at the mall or at county fairs. The cost of the car is probably nothing compared to the amount of money they'll get from selling your personal info over and over again.

LatherRinseRepeat

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farker — Mon, 19 May 2008 11:26:08 EDT

You're better off assuming any time you give your personal information, that someone is going to sell/buy it from someone else. There's not much use in thinking otherwise.

farker

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Party Boy — Mon, 19 May 2008 11:24:47 EDT

Our surname is German and hard to pronounce so we've been using "King" as the name for pizza deliveries and restaurant reservations since the 1970s. Before I got married, my brother and I used to pick obscure (and sometimes not so obscure) sports names for pizza pickups: Walt Frazier, Mario Andretti, Gary Peters (Go White Sox!), etc. It was fun.

Party Boy

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Mon, 19 May 2008 11:24:32 EDT

"for the porpuse of the quiz, i live in California..." Well, screw the quiz then, I'm getting tacos from the back of a truck, then going surfing.

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Priam3 — Mon, 19 May 2008 11:15:04 EDT

Meg? Would you happen to have links for the privacy laws of other states?

Priam3

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Buran — Mon, 19 May 2008 11:14:47 EDT

However, IF they have a privacy policy that states that they won't sell it, then they can be sued for breach of contract if they do anyway since you entered into an agreement with them that included that provision.

Buran

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apotheosis — Mon, 19 May 2008 11:12:27 EDT

The answer of course, is "false." If you managed to guess correctly, you're smarter than the average Californian.

I guessed "false" because if it was true, there wouldn't really be much to complain about.

apotheosis