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PRIVACY WARNING TO CUSTOMERS!! Internet and Video now - Are you next?

captainplooky

Jun 21, 2006, 4:52 PM
AT&T rewrites rules: Your data isn't yours
David Lazarus

AT&T has issued an updated privacy policy that takes effect Friday. The changes are significant because they appear to give the telecom giant more latitude when it comes to sharing customers' personal data with government officials.

The new policy says that AT&T -- not customers -- owns customers' confidential info and can use it "to protect its legitimate business interests, safeguard others, or respond to legal process."

The policy also indicates that AT&T will track the viewing habits of customers of its new video service -- something that cable and satellite providers are prohibited from doing.

Moreover, AT&T (formerly known as SBC) is requiring custom
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elisjourney

Jun 21, 2006, 7:48 PM
This is what happens when Texans are in charge. 👿
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renardlee

Jun 22, 2006, 1:58 AM
i hope Talk America doesnt do the same thing as AT&T, i seriously think that they are recompiling themselves after the 1994 breakup, i think they are gonna become a very large monopoly again, but they have to compete with Verizon Communications, Sprint,
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captainplooky

Jun 22, 2006, 1:45 PM
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Don.Mike

Jun 22, 2006, 2:29 PM
his kind can only come in if invited.
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captainplooky

Jun 22, 2006, 2:33 PM
You are so multi-faced 🤣
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Don.Mike

Jun 22, 2006, 2:35 PM
one face. even when i'm being civil to you i can still accuse you of vampirism. while i agree with you on points and respect your positions, i can also disagree and make attacks on you. it's the dignified way to fight.
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captainplooky

Jun 22, 2006, 2:36 PM
Works for me. 🙂
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Don.Mike

Jun 22, 2006, 2:37 PM
your mom works it for me. 🙂
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captainplooky

Jun 22, 2006, 2:40 PM
The wife doesn't mind that? Progressive.
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Don.Mike

Jun 22, 2006, 2:45 PM
🤣
good one plooky.
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captainplooky

Jun 22, 2006, 5:31 PM
😁
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Don.Mike

Jun 22, 2006, 5:31 PM
now seriously, leave. back to the lounge with you.
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captainplooky

Jun 22, 2006, 6:12 PM
Sure, after I raise the alarm a bit more. 😈
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Don.Mike

Jun 22, 2006, 6:26 PM
the only thing you are raising is your own libido. this stuff gets you off doesn't it? i mean i like reading up on it and writing my congressman etc... but dang dude.
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captainplooky

Jun 22, 2006, 6:34 PM
Dang dude, most people might miss information like this during their normal day.

Word of mouth is powerful.
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Don.Mike

Jun 22, 2006, 6:53 PM
superman is powerful too, and he's a dead cripple now. absorb that.
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captainplooky

Jun 23, 2006, 6:11 PM
Cold hearted dude.
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captainplooky

Jun 24, 2006, 4:40 PM
Harsh!
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Don.Mike

Jun 24, 2006, 5:13 PM
quit your whining. just saying word of mouth, while powerful, is succeptible to parapalegia.
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captainplooky

Jun 25, 2006, 3:46 PM
Why did you have to bring Superman and Christopher Reeves into it though?

That was just mean.
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captainplooky

Jun 28, 2006, 1:17 PM
I still cry when I think of this comment.
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captainplooky

Jun 28, 2006, 5:50 PM
My crying continues 🤭
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captainplooky

Jun 29, 2006, 1:29 PM
I'm growing dehyrdated. 😳
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captainplooky

Jul 1, 2006, 7:42 PM
I think I'm over it now, though still a tad bit upset.
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SpartanCanuck

Jul 5, 2006, 4:35 AM
captainplooky said:
I think I'm over it now, though still a tad bit upset.


The tempting thing to say is, "Get a helmet, Princess."

But that's sort of harsh too.
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captainplooky

Jun 26, 2006, 1:55 PM
This is a first... or are you all just as afraid of this new privacy policy as most anyone should be?
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notwhoiwuz

Jun 26, 2006, 4:56 PM
The only people that should be afraid of it are people with something to hide.
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captainplooky

Jun 26, 2006, 5:19 PM
😳

Well there you have it folks... words spoken either in ignorance or youth.
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uscingulair

Jul 3, 2006, 12:03 PM
you don't like it don't get a cell phone and quit you're bitchin. I mean jesus christ find a new topic of outrage and go to there web site and bitch
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captainplooky

Jul 5, 2006, 2:35 PM
Did you even read the post before denouncing it?

I suspect not, for had you, your comments would have had some substance.
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cingular_spy

Jul 15, 2006, 2:21 PM
I agree with you captainplooky! 🤣 😁 😲
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SpartanCanuck

Jun 29, 2006, 1:55 PM
I'm not sure what you'd want a Cingular rep to comment on in regards to this. I personally haven't heard of anything similiar on the Cingular side of the equation.

Personally, no, I'm not scared.
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captainplooky

Jun 30, 2006, 1:32 PM
At&t and Cingular are essentially the one in the same.

At&t is testing the waters with a policy like this and is most likely acting slowly to monitor the response to such policies before rolling them out further.


Personally, no, I'm not scared.


Famous last words if I have ever heard them.
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SpartanCanuck

Jul 5, 2006, 4:25 AM
captainplooky said:
At&t and Cingular are essentially the one in the same.

At&t is testing the waters with a policy like this and is most likely acting slowly to monitor the response to such policies before rolling them out further.


For all that's been communicated to me about this, you could very well be right. Odds are, no one from corporate will ever come down and poll us about it. If the change does get applied to Cingular, we'll find out about it at the last minute. Or it's possible we won't be told about it until after it's happened.



Personally, no, I'm not scared.


Famous last words if I have ever heard them.


*shrugs* Possibly. Ask...
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captainplooky

Jul 5, 2006, 2:33 PM
Yes, thank you very much.
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cingular_spy

Jul 15, 2006, 2:25 PM
😁
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cingular_spy

Jul 15, 2006, 2:23 PM
😲
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uscingulair

Jul 3, 2006, 11:56 AM
god damn do you think that was long enough...what do you sit at home and type this sh!t
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RUFF1415

Jul 3, 2006, 12:39 PM
It was an online article. Copy and pasted.
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uscingulair

Jul 3, 2006, 12:46 PM
really? 😲
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independentjoe

Jul 6, 2006, 4:53 PM
Is that hard to believe?
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captainplooky

Jul 7, 2006, 6:53 PM
Why do you do business with them again?
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taurus

Jul 16, 2006, 2:05 PM
AT&T wireless was better b4 cingular took it over. I don't know why AT&T sold to cingular, they should of stayed where they were. Now all of the AT&T customers are having problems with their phones because they aren't on the "new" cingular network, so its causing their calls to drop, and coverage where it use to be isn't there anymore. Very frustrating 🙄
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lefteyeiu2006

Jul 16, 2006, 11:03 PM
taurus said:
AT&T wireless was better b4 cingular took it over. I don't know why AT&T sold to cingular, they should of stayed where they were. Now all of the AT&T customers are having problems with their phones because they aren't on the "new" cingular network, so its causing their calls to drop, and coverage where it use to be isn't there anymore. Very frustrating 🙄



Hello! Thank you for posting in the Cingular forum. AT&T Wireless (may that wonderful company rest in peace) was spun off from the old AT&T in 2001 and thier CEO came to the conclusion that the wireless carrier would not last on its own and that they would have to sell themselves to another carrier. So in Early 2004 they put thems...
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RUFF1415

Jul 17, 2006, 12:17 AM
Sprint is the oddball of the group. The wireless division was flourishing and the wireline services were floundering and after the acquisition of Nextel, Sprint PCS decided to go solo.

Since then, Sprint landline (the name) has ceased to exist and has become Embarq.

It was rather odd to see the wireless divison do so well compared to the once huge telecom as a whole. But I guess these are the days of wireless...
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dca

Jul 17, 2006, 2:24 PM
...not really, Embarq now hovers around $40/share when SPCPS around half that. Even not-so-tech-savy individuals (investors) realize that their's an impossible marriage of technologies going on...

It did look good (Sprint buying Nextel) on paper, though.
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lefteyeiu2006

Jul 18, 2006, 5:15 PM
RUFF1415 said:
Sprint is the oddball of the group. The wireless division was flourishing and the wireline services were floundering and after the acquisition of Nextel, Sprint PCS decided to go solo.

Since then, Sprint landline (the name) has ceased to exist and has become Embarq.

It was rather odd to see the wireless divison do so well compared to the once huge telecom as a whole. But I guess these are the days of wireless...



Oh! I did not know that Sprint PCS spun off of Sprint, which renamed itself Embarq.

This oddly reminds me of AT&T Wireless being spun of from AT&T in 2001. I wonder if Sprint PCS will ultimately have the same fate as the old AT&T Wireless? But probably not since the Aug...
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