Oh totally. But they don’t sync that information “immediately”. Nor would they ever want to because then the user would know that’s where the information came from.
Comment on I put my number in a secure form for a trusted bank and immediately got spammed
cordlesslamp@lemmy.today 5 months agoBanks and hospitals sell your information, too.
When my wife gave birth to our son at the hospital, I have to put down my phone number as part of the check in form. Immediately the next day I got call for “Home care services for new mom and baby”.
When I got my first big saving in the bank, a
irotsoma@lemmy.world 5 months ago
cordlesslamp@lemmy.today 5 months ago
I don’t think they really care if it’s not actually illegal.
Or they could sell the data in bulk. And the day I put in my number just happens to be the day they sell their database.
irotsoma@lemmy.world 5 months ago
I guess it depends on what OP meant by “immediately”. If they meant the same day, maybe. If they meant within seconds or a few minutes, which is what I interpreted it as, then probably not. It takes time to transfer data out of a secure network, unless they gave the company direct access to a feed from the website, which would be really risky for a bank to give any organization a direct, real-time feed of any kind that is on the same network as financial data. I mean unless the bank also owned the spamming company, but that seems risky for reputation.
yannic@lemmy.ca 5 months ago
…hospitals sell your information, too.
I feel so sorry for those of you living in places with for-profit healthcare.
yannic@lemmy.ca 5 months ago
I feel so sorry for those of you living in places with for-profit healthcare.