Verizon Is Up to It Again

Ver­i­zon Cus­tomers — Just Say No! — ReadWriteWeb

David Wein­berger, co-author of The Clue­train Man­i­festo and the more recent Every­thing is Mis­cel­la­neous received a let­ter today from Ver­i­zon. A “legal­is­tic pam­phlet” that informed him he has 45 days to opt out of ‘agree­ing’ to let Ver­i­zon share his per­sonal information.

Wein­berger, unlike the major­ity of us who rarely read the asso­ci­ated para­pher­na­lia that arrives with bills and the like, noticed that Verizon’s modus operandi was to share Cus­tomer Pro­pri­etary Net­work Infor­ma­tion — the data cre­ated as a result of your rela­tion­ship with Ver­i­zon Wire­less — unless you ask them to stop.

Yet another egre­gious mis­step on Verizon’s part. This is the kind of thing that will keep me from will­ingly using them.

Davis closes with what I’ve said to peo­ple all along:

For a com­pany that prides itself on oper­at­ing the nation’s most reli­able and largest wire­less voice and data net­work […] it clearly still has a way to go.