Sears website shows everything you've ever bought

Filed under: Security

Sears website shows everything you've ever bought

by Jason Harris Jan 4th 2008

In this age of questioning who has the rights to your information, Sears would like to join the conversation. We've discovered a Sears website that lists all major appliance and repair service records for your friends, neighbors, and anyone if you know their address.

Why would you care what an address' Sears activity has been? Well, what about your upcoming birthday - using Sears' website you could easily see what Mom bought you. Or if you happen to notice a box on a neighbor's doorstep and it's from Sears - theoretically now you can know what's inside, just by providing the name and address.

To get started, create an account at www.managemyhome.com, click "Find Sears Products", enter a name, address, and phone number and you're set!

Happy Snooping!

[via Consumerist]

Tags: sears, security

Reader Comments (Page 1 of 1)

RP said 3:15PM on 1-04-2008

I think they changed their site since this article... I wasn't able to find any information.

Cory Anotado said 3:43PM on 1-04-2008

I like how you guys hail this as something if not nice, then at least neutral, while the original Consumerist post labels it "evil."

Do you guys read what you link to, or did you forget to add a /strong tag to your /sarcasm tag?

Dice1976 said 3:51PM on 1-04-2008

I think RP is correct - I can not find anything on their website either that says "Find Sears Products"

Jason said 3:51PM on 1-04-2008

I didn't think anyone still bought anything at Sears...

Matt said 4:07PM on 1-04-2008

This is in fact quite shady. Sears apparently installs spyware upon your registration. See the article by Bruce Schneier on the details - http://www.schneier.com/blog/archives/2008/01/is_sears_engagi.html

RP said 3:48AM on 1-05-2008

I had always wondered how ComScore got their panels of users -- when you see those interesting statistics they publish.

Jason Harris said 5:05PM on 1-04-2008

Yes it looks like they changed the site...took off the "Find Sears Products".

Cool - no more evil!

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