Originally Posted by
kokonutz
Again, when IB bought and paid for FT they bought our information contained in the FT databases. Did you imagine IB would NOT monetize their investment in every way possible?
I signed up with FT. I read the privacy statement (which said my details would not be passed on to third parties). I trusted that privacy statement.
Maybe it can be argued that IB is not a third party because they bought FT. I know US privacy laws are nowhere near as strict as privacy laws over here in the UK and that IB may well be acting within the law in the US. Here in the UK if you give someone your personal details for a specific purpose, and they use them for a different purpose, then they are committing an offence.
I appreciate that it is likely that no US law has been broken, but I am still not very happy.