Wednesday, October 05, 2005

Zip.ca will violate your privacy

Mike Smit did a review of the Zip.ca service, which is the Canadian Netflix imitator. He believes that, according to Canadian law

"zip.ca will violate your privacy
You heard me - Zip.ca has privacy practices that violate both their own privacy policy and federal privacy legislation. In particular, after you cancel your membership they will keep your credit card and personal information indefinitely, "...incase you will be renewing again (as many members do)". They are currently under investigation by the Office of the Federal Privacy Commissioner.

When he uses the word "Federal", he's talking about the Canadian legislature, not the American government.

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