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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;-jeffB, post: 2369585, member: 27832&quot;]Added qualification above.</p><p><br /></p><p>Arguing that &quot;this is okay because they guessed right&quot; doesn&#039;t carry any water in the world of actual business policy. Specifically, if you&#039;re dealing with businesses that operate with this amount of slack, you&#039;d better be sure you aren&#039;t going to, oh, I don&#039;t know, <i>move</i>. Or divorce or remarry.</p><p><br /></p><p>I don&#039;t know if there are <i>laws</i> that HA is breaking here. (I do know that if they&#039;d done something similar with <i>health information</i>, under HIPAA regulations they would be in a world of well-defined legal hurt.)</p><p><br /></p><p>The bigger question, though, is <i>why would they do this in the first place</i>? If someone buys something from them through an eBay auction, they can feel free to set up a <i>new</i> account for that eBay customer, and maybe even <i>ask</i> whether they&#039;d like to use an existing HA account instead. But doing this automatically, and leaking potentially sensitive financial information to boot, is a Really Big Screw-Up. Having the same last name, or address, or even last name AND address as someone else DOES NOT automatically imply permission to share arbitrary purchase information.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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