p2pnet news view Freedom | P2P:- David Weinberger, co-author of The Cluetrain Manifesto and the more recent Everything is Miscellaneous, had an interesting letter from Verizon, says Lidija Davis in ReadWriteWeb, which also features the cartoon on the right.

It seems Weinberger was on the receiving end of a “legalistic pamphlet” telling him he had 45 days to opt out of ‘agreeing’ to let, “Verizon share his personal information”.

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Weinberger, unlike the majority of us who rarely read the associated paraphernalia that arrives with bills and the like, noticed that Verizon’s modus operandi was to share Customer Proprietary Network Information – the data created as a result of your relationship with Verizon Wireless – unless you ask them to stop.

This information includes “services purchased (including specific calls you make and receive), billing info, technical info and location info. They promise to only share this with ‘affiliates, agents and parent companies.’ It will definitely not be shared with ‘unrelated third parties’ … unless, perhaps that third party pays Verizon to become an affiliate, whatever the heck ‘affiliate’ means,” Wienberger wrote.

While getting this in the mail is great, what about those people who only receive electronic copies from Verizon? Did they too receive a message? I didn’t, so I decided to investigate, and sure enough, after logging into my Verizon Wireless account I couldn’t find a mention of the CPNI. As Weinberger pointed out, there is a link to it in my messages, but alas, as he also mentions, the link is “not available.“

(Thanks, Marc)

ReadWriteWeb – Verizon Customers – Just Say No!, March 8, 2009

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