According to author David Weinberger, Verizon wants to share (read sell) your information. Verizon is sending out information via snail mail.
Here is the info according to David:
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,”
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.“
Based on everything I have read about this, everyone is recommending that you opt-out or say no.
[via Read Write Web]
