In USA ,When you open a new bank account at a new bank , the bank sells or shares your address and phone info to advertisers and other companies unless you OPT-OUT. (which they don't tell you and it's hidden in some very small print in pages of other new account papers you get by mail later , AFTER they already shared it.) But the default is to op-in everyone .
I found this out the hard way by finally asking one of the many phone solicitors/saleman where he got my unlisted number from. And he said he wasn't supposed to tell me but he did. HE GOT IT FROM MY BANK!
Many other companies do this to you also , like phone companies , power companies , mortgage companies.
Why not go after them for the default sharing of your private info ? Oh wait maybe they have better lobbists that bought off your Gov. officials to allow them to act that same way.
In USA ,When you open a new bank account at a new bank , the bank sells or shares your address and phone info to advertisers and other companies unless you OPT-OUT. (which they don't tell you and it's hidden in some very small print in pages of other new account papers you get by mail later , AFTER they already shared it.) But the default is to op-in everyone .
I found this out the hard way by finally asking one of the many phone solicitors/saleman where he got my unlisted number from. And he said he wasn't supposed to tell me but he did. HE GOT IT FROM MY BANK!
Many other companies do this to you also , like phone companies , power companies , mortgage companies.
Why not go after them for the default sharing of your private info ? Oh wait maybe they have better lobbists that bought off your Gov. officials to allow them to act that same way.