https://www.stopcatalog.com/tags/miles-kimball/Recent content in Miles Kimball on Stopcatalog.comHugo -- gohugo.ioenStopcatalog.comFri, 05 Jun 2026 00:00:00 +0000https://www.stopcatalog.com/post/miles-kimball-identity-theft/Fri, 05 Jun 2026 00:00:00 +0000https://www.stopcatalog.com/post/miles-kimball-identity-theft/ <h2 id="when-a-catalog-subscription-becomes-a-privacy-liability">When a Catalog Subscription Becomes a Privacy Liability</h2> <p>Picture a 74-year-old woman who ordered holiday gifts from a housewares catalog a few years back. The catalog kept arriving. Then a sweepstakes mailer appeared — she doesn't remember entering any contest. Then a &quot;final notice&quot; charity renewal that looked official. Then a prescreen credit offer addressed to her with alarming precision. None of these pieces of mail required a data breach to arrive. Every one of them traces to a single, mundane fact: her name and address landed on a list of active older catalog buyers, and that list is commercially valuable.</p>