Radio Shack Is Auctioning Off Your Personal Data

Report: Radio Shack To Sell Customers’ Personal Information In Bankruptcy Sale

 

 

 

 

 

” When you go shopping, you probably think stores will keep your personal information safe and secure.

  But now, a report says Radio Shack is ready to auction off customer information as part of its bankruptcy sale.

  As CBS2’s Dick Brennan reported, the report says Radio Shack is ready to sell information they have on some 117 million customers, including names, addresses, phone numbers and other details on purchases.

  This despite the Radio Shack privacy policy, which says “We will not sell or rent your personally identifiable information to anyone at any time.” “

 

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Obama Rule Changes Allow Gun Confiscation For Any Visit To A Shrink

See A Shrink, Lose Your Gun

 

 

” In an end-of-week “information dump” often resorted to by political leaders to publicly release information they would like overlooked, President Obama formally has launched his much-feared expansion of the use of mental health diagnoses to crack down on gun ownership.

  The Obama Department of Homeland Security already is on record casting aspersions on the mental ability of returning veterans, third-party candidate supporters and people with pro-life bumper stickers – calling them potential “right-wing extremists.” It was also caught, through the IRS, targeting conservative organizations that might be critical of Obama.

  So critics of the administration long have warned the move would come. On Friday, it did.

  Obama announced that his Department of Justice is proposing a rule change that would “clarify” that being committed to a mental institution – a key red flag under gun ownership rules – would include receiving nebulous “outpatient” services from a professional, such as a psychiatrist.”

 

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Missouri Highway Patrol Gives Feds CCW List – Violates Confidentiality Laws

Highway Patrol Gave Feds Missouri Weapon Permits Data

 

 

 

 

 

” The Missouri State Highway Patrol has twice turned over the entire list of Missouri concealed weapon permit holders to federal authorities, most recently in January, Sen. Kurt Schaefer said Wednesday.

Questioning in the Senate Appropriations Committee revealed that on two occasions, in November 2011 and again in January, the patrol asked for and received the full list from the state Division of Motor Vehicle and Driver Licensing. Schaefer later met in his office with Col. Ron Replogle, superintendent of the patrol.

The investigation was triggered by fears that concealed weapons data was being shared with federal authorities.

Under Missouri law, the names of concealed weapon permit holders are confidential. The only place in Missouri where the names of all concealed carry permit holders is stored is among driver license records. Permit holders have a special mark on their licenses indicating they have been granted the privilege of carrying a gun.

The list was given to the Social Security Administration Office of Inspector General, Schaefer said he was told.

“When they turn over the entire list of concealed carry holders in the state of Missouri to the federal government, where is it going?” he said. “I want to know who all was involved in this transaction because if this is just some phone call saying give me the list of all concealed carry holders, how did the person at the patrol who fulfilled that request know who was at the other end of the phone? How did they know where to send it? How did they know what it was being used for?”

The fact that the list had been copied two times was revealed when Sen. Rob Schaaf, R-St. Joseph, followed up on testimony that it was possible, through a batch request, to extract the list. Revenue Deputy Director John Mollenkamp said it had been done twice, for the highway patrol.

Mollenkamp said he wasn’t sure what the patrol did with it while it was in that agency’s possession.”

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Related articles

• Missouri flap on driver’s license privacy heats up (kansascity.com)
• Missouri Dept. of Revenue Collecting Citizen Data and Sending it to DHS (a4cgr.wordpress.com)
• Law Firm: New York Matching Up Private Health Records With Firearms Permits to Confiscate Guns (directorblue.blogspot.com)
• BREAKING: Missouri Broke Own State Law, Shared Detailed Conceal Carry Records With Feds (thegatewaypundit.com)
• Mo. officials defend licensing policy to senators (sfgate.com)
• Audit, Public Hearings Planned on Missouri License Controversy (stlouis.cbslocal.com)

 

 

 

 

 

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