It’s always a little amusing and a little annoying to be accused of “whining” whenever I make a post about privacy rights.  Someone calling themselves “Johanna” (the Yahoo profile identifies this person as male, though) posted a comment to this post I made on June 5th (I really need to start turning off comments on old posts).  I find “her” tone odd and it really makes me wonder if this is some sort of astroturf campaign on the part of Sunglass Hut.  I’m not outright making that accusation, but it does come to mind.  The only way this person could have found that page was to have done a web search for Sunglass Hut, since the page hasn’t been on the front of my site for over two months.  I’m starting to notice a bit of this kind of activity.  People stumble across one of my archived posts and then post a comment several months later.  In at least one other case it appears that there was some corporate interest.  In this case, I have determined that the user came in via AOL (user agent “MSIE 5.5; AOL 8.0; Windows 98” from “cache-rg05.proxy.aol.com”) after doing a Google search for “sunglass hut customer service”.

Anyway, it bugged me a little and I responded a couple of times via email.  I posted those emails to the article as comments.