Message:

<p>[QUOTE=&quot;Brett_in_Sacto, post: 2369560, member: 71510&quot;]Disparate accounts, names, no linked banks, no linked credit cards, no linked PayPal information.</p><p><br /></p><p>I&#039;m veteran of this stuff and work with information security for a living.&nbsp; The link between the two was leveraging disparate account information to make the correlation.</p><p><br /></p><p>There is ZERO connectivity or correlation between what my wife does on Ebay (with her business account) and my personal login to HA.&nbsp; They made the correlation on name only and without permission.</p><p><br /></p><p>I do not mix accounts.&nbsp; I know better, and have procedures and protocols that I follow to make sure accounts remain disparate.</p><p><br /></p><p>I spoke to the HA rep already.&nbsp; They told me how it happened, and even they were shocked at how they assumed and correlated the two disparate entities to link the account.</p><p><br /></p><p>They have software doing this and it&#039;s breaking ethical boundaries that should be in place for privacy.</p><p><br /></p><p>I&#039;m not here to argue the point, and won&#039;t any further.&nbsp; </p><p><br /></p><p>I could dig into the NIST best practices and quote a bunch of techno mumbo jumbo that most won&#039;t get, but it would all fall on deaf ears.</p><p><br /></p><p>I will leave with this - if they had correlated <u><b><i>incorrectly</i></b></u> and linked my wife&#039;s account to the wrong person and sent them the information of what was purchased - and when to expect the shipment, I&#039;d have justifiable cause for a lawsuit for breach of privacy.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

Your name or email address:

Do you already have an account?

• No, create an account now.
• Yes, my password is:
• Forgot your password?

Stay logged in