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Don't forget a DVD rental card at Blockbuster. Yep, they used to ask for it just to become a member but you could of course not fill it in and they would still accept your membership.

I still remember them asking me for mine. Pure jokes.

Here's an article from almost 15 years ago where one of the Blockbuster locations dumped a bunch of customer forms in the street where most forms had people's SSNs on it: http://legalshred.com/east-side-new-york-blockbuster-dumps-c...

> The trash pile included recent membership applications, each revealing the customer’s birth date, address, phone number, driver’s license number and signature.

More alarming, each application also contained a credit card number and expiration date, and many included a Social Security number.

Talk about a violation of privacy and leaking sensitive information. This is why you can't trust big companies with anything sensitive.




What is Blockbuster?


https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Blockbuster_LLC

A now-defunct chain of video rental stores.


A chain of video rental stores in the US

edit: US and elsewhere

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Blockbuster_LLC




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