Comment by unclebucknasty

I feared this story would end with some version of "no one could tell me how I received this message". So, I suppose it's heartening to hear that you were able to resolve it, and relatively quickly.

But, I do think that's where we're headed fast: with so many interconnections, "affiliate" side-deals, opt-out limitations, etc., we'll soon not be able to manage the byzantine trail of entities that have access to our data in a given scenario. Our efforts to even understand who has our data and how, let alone control access, will be near-useless.