Boycott Home Depot

They've been doing it since 2018... and the fine is zero.

My zipper is my privacy czar.

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Translation: "Customer data is an important commodity. We would like to continue selling it since they have no rights to privacy. We will work with the commission because we have litterally no other choice. Luckily the old fucks in government have no idea what personal actually is or how it can be used so this should be fine."

Sounds like home depot will be rebranding themselves soon… this kind of stuff needs to be on front page and evening news in mainstream, not tucked in the corner somewhere for low fly-by…

.... honest question. Why? I literally could not care less about this.

In addition to the issue having zero import to any human being on earth, it's also bullshit to talk about reasonable expectations. If you give someone information such as your email address and they've made no statement of any kind to you about what they are going to do with that information, you have no expectations of any kind. You gave the info, it's theirs now.

I’ve never been to Home Depot, I’m doing my part!

I wish there were more cases of law firms crating class action cases against our privacy being sold off without consent. A couple of big lawsuits will make them change the way the fleece us. Cause right now they are doing it and no punishment besides a statement telling people hey at least your financial information was compromised.

Reality this is probably going to get worse soon. Nothing stopping companies from buying stolen information obtained by hackers or malicious groups.

This reminds me of when the Home Depot shared all its “Pro account” details to the CRA without warrant. Just handed all purchasing data details of all account holders to CRA for a fishing expedition by the Revenue Agency. This company has no care or concern over your data privacy. I hope they choke on all their material overstock this year.

They should boycott them. Deserved to be punished.

Lowe’s is cleaner anyway ngl

Lowes feels like the walmart of home repair stores, granted they have that red brand that's usually super cheap but seems to be acceptable quality.

Home Depot seems to have more retired tradesmen, at least where I am.

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Home depot owner is a fierce Trumpist and an vocal antivax.

We should all boycott Home Depot.

Sharing offline conversions to calculate roi on advertising, how radical….lol

You might not, most of people though would… so would I… impact (probably what you meant) is that data hungry harvester leeches are building your profiles and presenting skewed information to you on your social media platforms to shift your opinion for more socially important things in path of least resistance for your character/personality type that serves them best. Have you looked at Cambridge Analytica and Facebook doings for last 5 years or so, if not - read about it - quite interesting stuff there.

It’s cleaner because the store is practically empty and not nearly as many people shop there.

works for me and my lil projects lol

A title we can understand this time

NOW I AM PISSED!

Due to ineffectual or no legislation at all there are no consequences ...this fiasco sits squarely on the government's shoulders. All things being equal Home Depot and Meta should have faced enormous fines for this fiasco

I started boycotting Home Depot when I found out they were one of Donald Trump's biggest supporters

And that’s why I never give companies my email address when they ask for it.

Even companies that promise never to sell your data or send you spam will ultimately let the honey pot of capitalism win over their morals.

Three years ago I bought a vacuum from a mom-and-pop shop in my town. They asked for email because they wanted to email me if any recalls got issued for the vacuum I bought.
Low and behold, 2 months ago I started getting ‘newsletters’ from them.

You cannot trust literally anyone with your information at this point.

I’m nearly at the point of replacing my email with a bunch of different accounts, so that data brokers and marketing companies have more difficulty establishing a comprehensive profile on me.

Lows has better plants. Hands down, every time.

I go to nurseries for plants. I think lowes and hd are very overpriced in the garden area in general.

They usually have gems that I don’t catch at nurseries though. Especially for my area. The nurseries hold plants longer, so they usually cater to the climate a little more too.

i just give everyone a throw away email.