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Sears’ Online Snooping Nets Fed Smackdown
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June 7th, 2009
Under a proposed settlement with the U.S. Federal Trade Commission, Sears has agreed to destroy incredibly detailed and personal information it collected about the activities of people who signed-up to become members of an online "community" between April 2007 and January 2008.
The FTC said the highly intrusive application would "monitor consumers’ online secure sessions–including sessions on third parties’ Web sites–and collect information transmitted in those sessions, such as the contents of shopping carts, online bank statements, drug prescription records, video rental records, library borrowing histories, and the sender, recipient, subject, and size for web-based E-mails. The software would also track some computer activities that were not related to the Internet."
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I have strong reservations about the 'individual' certification and posting of that information for merchants. Can you imagine the potential employee poaching that might occur? The implications when competitors can look up how many are certified with each of their competitors? 
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