New Dish Network Privacy Policy

[Scott Greczkowski]

Dish Network has introduced a new customer privacy policy. I suggest all Dish Network customers read it over well for important information such as how to opt out from Dish selling your information to other marketing companies.

Feel free to discuss this new privacy policy here.

 

[korsjs]

great - you have to opt out from having your personal infomation given away.

 

[GaryPen]

Feel free to discuss this new privacy policy here.

OK. It sucks.

 

[BFG]

Dish can violate me some more j/k

Too much text...

 

[shadowman11]

Thanks for the timely info. I visited the Dish web site and checked the box to not share my info.

 

[mwgiii]

Basically, just sign into your account and check the box "Don't Share My Information".

 

[BFG]

So they changed their policy to allow them to sell your info to third parties? Lame.

Dish is really looking to make every dime possible.

 

[dfergie]

Basically, just sign into your account and check the box "Don't Share My Information".

Been there done that...hopefully they have not given every junk mailer etc my info yet...

 

[Bagman]

Korsjs, Gary, Bryan, Shadowman, Mwgiii (My post-high school honey uses that tag), dfergie,

I know that you all hate Dish, but at what grade level did you stop reading classes? Do you have a credit card and have you read the Privacy Policy for it (them). They (the credit card companies) are giving away far more than Dish, which is name and address. At least Dish requires a court order to divulge more!!!

bagman

Been there done that...hopefully they have not given every junk mailer etc my info yet...

 

[dfergie]

Bagman in 3rd grade I read high school level...as Forrest Gump would say that is all I have to say about that...

 

[BFG]

heigh dont put wordz in mi moth. i nevther sade i did not lik disch.

 

[dfergie]

Bagman in 3rd grade I read high school level...as Forrest Gump would say that is all I have to say about that...

Since I hate dish so much I give them 4 receivers and Aep worth of money a month...Btw I must love Direct cause I only give them 2 receivers and Total Choice + and Distants...

 

[Bagman]

I guess my point was (and i must not be too good at making it) is that Dish is much better than most and a lot better that others with thier Privacy Policy. I think most of the responders to Scott's post responded out of hand and did not read the policy. They assumed that Dish was out to screw them but others they dealt with were not. Go read the Privacy Policy for your credit card, your mortgage, your insurance, Music Match, ect., and compare them to Dish! You will be in for rude awakening.

I apologize if I offended you,

Bagman

Bagman in 3rd grade I read high school level...as Forrest Gump would say that is all I have to say about that...

 

[shadowman11]

...to clear up a misconception, I don't hate Dish.

I do feel lied to about certain service promises that were made and have not been kept...yet. Figure the squeaky wheel gets the grease, so if I and others complain long enough Dish will make good on their promises. Dish does not appear to have a long term vision for their business plan, hence I sold all my stock after making about 18% profit. Let's wait and see how they handle the MPEG 4 roll-out. HDTV started with a bang, but turned into a dud.

I really like the quality of the Dish signal going into my Sony set via S-video. I really like the sound quality in using my Sony receiver optical input. I really like the addition of Sirius music channels to the line-up, so much that I'm now a subscriber with two PNP radios.

Have a Happy SuperBowl weekend

 

[dfergie]

I guess my point was (and i must not be too good at making it) is that Dish is much better than most and a lot better that others with thier Privacy Policy. I think most of the responders to Scott's post responded out of hand and did not read the policy. They assumed that Dish was out to screw them but others they dealt with were not. Go read the Privacy Policy for your credit card, your mortgage, your insurance, Music Match, ect., and compare them to Dish! You will be in for rude awakening.

I apologize if I offended you,

Bagman

NP... I skimmed it as I always do sorry, I speed read and sometimes have to go back and read again..

 

[xsailor]

It's amazing how people can bitch and throw stones at Dish, when they are doing nothing different than every other consumer company out there!

 

[GaryPen]

I guess it makes it all OK, then.

 

[xsailor]

As a matter of fact, yes it does make it alright! You were notified of their legal intent and given the opportunity of opt out. But, hey, let's just bitch about it!

 

[GaryPen]

OK then. What if they notified you that they were going to sell your daughter into slavery, unless you opted out? I guess it's alright because they sent you note first.

 

[Bill R]

OK then. What if they notified you that they were going to sell your daughter into slavery, unless you opted out? I guess it's alright because they sent you note first.

Gary has made a good point. Once a company has a privacy policy in place they sould not be able to change it so that it requires a person to "opt out" so that the company isn't allowed to "share" data with others (usually selling the data to ANYONE willing to pay). A lot of companies are doing that and it is just plain wrong.