Cable Company Posted Names Of Overdue Customers On Facebook

amddragonpc said:
Oh what they did is kind of like the sex offender database. :rolleyes:[/QUOTEI

I hope that was sarcasm, as Sex Offenders broke a CRIMINAL law.

Hey for the "deabeat" haters how about we built a debtors prison so we can lock them up until they pay their bills......;)

By the way I might have been a Comcast list when I refused to pay my bill until my internet service worked as required.... took them 4 months to replace a main line down the block that squirrels had bitten into, which allowed H2O to penetrate.
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Z3r0k3wl said:
It is also illegal here in Canada.
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cyberguy said:
Sorry, but it is 100% illegal. Any company that did this to me I would have an entire law firm crawling up their legal asses. A lovely thing about Canada is that we have some pretty heavy privacy laws to protect us from asshats like that cable company. We wouldn't even have to make a libel case of it. Just publicly announcing our name as a customer without our written permission is grounds for a ruinous lawsuit. There are some flaming hoops that businesses have to jump thru in Canada with regards to client privacy.
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It's allowed since given and surname aren't enough to be identifiable. They've checked with the lawyers.
 
Wonder how long before new TOS* are posted on the company's website specifically allowing posting of people's names X number of days behind in payments?

*continued use of our service indicates you accept these new TOS unless we receive a written signed notice.
 
d8lock said:
Because the billing department at a cable company is known to be 100% accurate and never makes a mistake.
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Again, we are not talking about Comcast. We are talking about a podunk cable company, probably family owned that has, at most, a few thousand customers. This is in the arctic in the Northwest Territories so yes, in fact when the billing department says they know everyone, they probably mean it since it is a very small town.

Also, there is no right to privacy (and no government can grant such a right) when it comes to billing information in the absences of an explicitly signed contract stating as much.
 
I love how our telecoms use the excuse that Canada is so large that the infrastructure costs so much to build .... yet 75-80% of Canadians live within 100 miles of the border.
 
Ragenrok said:
problem with Canada is prices are so varied for no reason other than because, much like the US it boils down to competition. I pay $70/month in Canada for 100/20 fiber connection (but I actually get 107/30) from Telus, yet go one city over and they pay $60/month for 20/5 connection because Telus doesn't have fiber there. Same with cell phone, here in alberta you pay what? $80/month for 3-4 gb of data, but go to sask or Manitoba and $70/month gets you unlimited minutes and 10-15gb of data because their provincial government run their own cell companies so the big ones like Telus and Bell have to compete
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I pay $45/month for a 100/100 fibre connection, no data caps. And it's because I live somewhere where there is actually competition. Telecom prices in Canada are ridiculous.
 
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