Washington Post - hooked on phonics violates posted privacy policy

Selling the demographic on children's registration data violates the spirit of COPPA
as well, but I have no details on that.

Washington Post
Web Firms Choose Profit Over Privacy
By Jonathan Krim
Washington Post Staff Writer
Tuesday, July 1, 2003; Page A01

To parents interested in buying the popular Hooked on Phonics learn-to-read
programs, the company made a firm promise on its Web site: It would never
sell or rent their personal information to other marketers.

But that pledge was empty. In the pages of a marketing trade publication,
Gateway Learning Corp., the product's California-based parent company, was
advertising to rent the list of Hooked on Phonics buyers to other marketers.

At a price of $95 per 1,000 names, companies could arrange to have
unsolicited advertising sent to 105,936 people who bought Hooked on Phonics
in the past year. Included in the information made available to other
marketers: ages of the buyers' children.

Callwave.net does not verify e-mail addresses

[This is just TOO good. But, shame on you callwave.net, for not verifying e-mail addresses!
Thanks to google, here are the NAMES of your callers, in case you want to call them back.

D C Shockey, (918) xxx-0798 OK
Calvin L Remy, (918) xxx-4491 OK

]
You missed a call from 918-xxx-0798. This caller tried to call you but received a busy signal
because you were on the phone.

You are receiving this message because you have CallWave's Call Notification feature turned on.
When you are online, CallWave's Internet Answering Machine notifies you about incoming calls instantly.
Call Notification is a new service from CallWave that also notifies you about calls you missed when
you were offline (talking on the phone). There is no extra charge for this feature. If you would like to turn
Call Notification off, or set it up to send alerts to your cell phone,
please visit http://www.callwave.net/callNotification.

Yahoo - now serving SPAM on the menu

[SPAM from Yahoo - never opted in!]

Has Yahoo abandoned their long standing policy of only sending e-mail to verified e-mail addresses? I contacted MAPS NML to be sure.

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