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How Private is Your Privacy?

October 8, 2007 Tagged as: evil-empire privacy

I'm not a huge privacy nut. Honestly, if the government wants to waste their resources tapping my phone line, fine. They might hear my conversation with my mom, but that's about it. However, the other day, I logged into my Blockbuster Total Access account to remove some movies from our queue that we ended up renting in the store. This is a common occurrence, because every time a movie is recommended to us, we put it on our queue, amounting to a current 147 movies in our queue. As I clicked the link to view my queue, I see the above image. This confused me a bit. Apparently, Blockbuster must be logging ALL the movies you rent from them in the store as well as online. I browsed through the TOS to see what they could do with this information, and it seems as though they can do pretty much whatever they'd like to do with it.

Since the Constitution of the United States doesn't protect your from non-government entities, there's really nothing anyone can do about it. Just thought I would point out that when you sign up for something, you never know what is being logged.