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Suppose one company buys another company outright. Should that company keep its customer list (effectively transferring it to the new owner), or throw it away,
by asuffield 11y ago
Suppose one company buys another company outright. Should that company keep its customer list (effectively transferring it to the new owner), or throw it away, ditch all its customers, and start from square 1? Would you be happy as a customer if you were told that because your cellphone company had been bought, your contract is cancelled and they can't offer you another one, you have to go to the store and start over? Would you be happy as an employee of this company being bought?
Now, suppose the purchasing company isn't buying the entire business, but (say) half of it? What's changed? (This is roughly what is being proposed here)
- tw04 11y agoNothing has changed. In both cases, you should be able to continue using that customer data to provide a service they've asked you to provide (not what is being proposed here). You should not, in either case, be allowed to sell that data to marketers who will turn around and use it to either build profiles on people, or to spam/harass them with unwanted advertising(what IS being proposed here). There is no gray area here.