Last year, several major U.S.-based health insurance companies were hit with data breaches that put millions of consumers’ private information at risk. The trend continued this week, with nearly a million health records going missing from Centene Corp. [More]
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Health Insurer Centene Misplaces Hard Drives Containing Personal Info For 950,000 Clients
By Ashlee Kieler 1.27.16
IKEA Does Not Want You To Play Hide And Seek In Stores
By Laura Northrup 3.16.15
It’s all very well and good if you want to play a game of grown-up hide-and-seek. However, IKEA would rather you didn’t play it inside their stores. The global megastore chain stopped planned games in their stores in the Netherlands. More than 32,000 people had signed up on Facebook for the biggest game at the store in Eindhoven, and now the organizers are looking for a different spot to hold the game. [More]
12-Year-Old Boy Missing For 6 Days Found At A Chinese IKEA
By Mary Beth Quirk 11.12.14
In what will likely set a precedent among the younger set who usually only manage to run away from home and get as far as the parking lot behind the candy store a block away, police in Shanghai say a 12-year-old boy missing for six days was found at an IKEA store after living off supermarket samples. [More]
UPS Plays Hide And Seek With My Packages
By Phil Villarreal 4.19.10
Ben says UPS is making a game of finding his packages, but it’s no fun because the carrier leaves him no hint of where he might find them. [More]
ECA Responds To Membership Controversy, But Doesn't Say Much
By cwalters 12.3.09
Yesterday, ECA President Hal Halpin emailed Consumerist and other blogs a formal statement addressing the charges that the ECA is deliberately making it hard for members to break free. I’m printing the letter below, along with a summary of the key points Halpin makes and the issues that remain unanswered. [More]
ECA Tries To Prevent Members From Canceling
By cwalters 12.2.09
Some members of the Entertainment Consumers Association (ECA) are pretty upset that the consumer advocacy group for gamers removed the ability to turn off auto-renewal on member accounts. They’ve also removed the phone number you used to be able to call to cancel. In fact, the only way to cancel your ECA membership now is to mail them a letter–and if your request isn’t processed at least 30 days before your membership is due to renew, you can expect to be charged again. Update: The ECA has responded, but their formal statement leaves a lot of questions unanswered. [More]
You May Want To Check Your Condoms For A 'Made in China' Label
By Phil Villarreal 11.10.09
Chinese police have shut down a factory that used underage workers to crank out unsafe and unsterile condoms. The cops did the right thing, but they wish they’d been a bit quicker about it, because 2 million of these condoms have already gotten into the wild, ABC News reports:
