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one time email addresses and what they yield

By Truman Boyes · · 2 min read

(listening to Clay your Hands Say Yeah) … inspiring polyphony with a multitude of layers of audible vibrations. I picked up “Some Lound Thunder (2007)” probably in late July 07, and somehow it was lost in my archives of stuff, and at some point I dug it out and began to enjoy the album, song by song. “Goodbye to the Mother and the Cover” is a radiohead-esque melody that contains emotions that seem to pour from all directions, with a steady marching drum beat that leads the listener to a crescendo.

Now about these email addresses. It seems that some of the large companies out there have poor policies regarding privacy and protection of email addresses of their customers. There are 3 companies that have breached my own trust:

  1. Ticketmaster
  2. Delta Airlines
  3. Mac Warehouse (now CDW)

I used unique email addresses with each one of these sites, as I do with many sites, and I have now found that random spam is coming in from random spam sources with a target of the unique email addresses that I provided to the above mentioned sites. I will write their customer service and see if they will provide an apology and explanation for what has caused my email (that I provided them) to become a litter-box.

 Here is what Ticketmaster policy says about sharing of information:

With whom we may share information we collect   (Read More)
We will not share your personal information with others except as indicated below, or except when we inform you in advance and give you the opportunity to opt out. We may share personal information with:

  • Event providers, such as the venues, promoters, artists’ representatives and fan clubs, teams, leagues and others who are involved in, produce or bring you events;
  • Service providers, such as credit-card payment processors, performing services on our behalf;
  • Other IAC businesses;
  • Other businesses with which we partner or which we carefully select to offer you products, services, and promotions through our website or offline; and
  • Other third parties in limited circumstances, such as complying with legal requirements, preventing fraud, and protecting the safety of our users.

We may share aggregated, non-personal information in any of the above situations and also with advertisers and others.

Originally published on truman.net. See the archived copy.