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by Anonymous User on Mon Mar 10, 2008 at 11:27:46 AM PDT

"I'm sorry, but I just don't consider my name and address confidential information."

You may not, but you are not everyone.

And we now have another example of businesses disclosing this kind of customer information blindly via e-mail: TheraBreath, apparently a company that makes toothpaste and other similar products.

The same person ordered products from there and gave my e-mail address again, and this time apparently the products ordered were a gift, because the shipping address wasn't the home address this time. So now I have TWO peoples' addresses.

TheraBreath's mailing also contained customer credit card information. You may not be worried about your home address being exposed to random people on the 'net, but your credit card info?

Needless to say, TheraBreath has been notified of their breach too now, and I won't disclose or misuse the information in their email to anyone.

Meanwhile, the list of companies that will blindly send customer-directed email to the wrong address grows to three:



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