[BetaMechazawa]

Is this an American thing? Because I've never had my bank, my provider, my health care etc sell any of my data (at least as far as I know).

[whyever]

It is a German thing as well: The Telekom sells mobile user data [1] (link in German).

[1] http://www.spiegel.de/netzwelt/netzpolitik/datenschutz-vag-i...

[jeffwass]

How would you know?

Do you have a credit card, and have you read the pages of fine print?

[icebraining]

Maybe (s)he has decent data protection laws in his/her country. I'm pretty sure this would be illegal in the EU, under the Directive 95/46/EC.

[skidoo]

That is adorable.

[icebraining]

Thanks, darling.

To make myself clear, I'm not saying they don't do it. I'm saying it's probably illegal, therefore the fine print doesn't matter.