This is why regulations keep increasing

I have my personal email set up so you can email any name with my domain and it goes to my regular inbox.  So every website or company i sign up with my email i use a citibank at mydomain type email for citibank for example.

Over the years it's crazy to see who sells my email to whom.  I'll get blatant porn spam from emails I used with big banks or corporations that you'd never expect to sell your data.

There's some of that, but they're usually things like Bob at mydomain or generic names.  When I create accounts I create them with a name and date format, so for example my tdameritrade email would be tdameritrade1008 at mydomain so I know it was tdameritrade that i created on 10/08.  I don't get too many generic name emails, but I get a lot to the various emails over the years.

I've had this email domain since 1997 and started using this strategy around 2003.  I have thought about creating a database to track who sells my email information, from a curiosity standpoint.

Personally I don't really have a big issue with any of the email selling, but the kind of crap mentioned by the OP article is out of bounds as far as I'm concerned.

Not all banks are allowed to share your information.  If you want to have some fun with the data you collected I would check the big banks privacy notice to see if they are in violation. 

Third party retailers and the info that they collect, sell, rent and share with others would make you ill.

I'm not going to mention any specifically, but there is one that I deal with in my work.

They install a program that tracks your site visits, your purchases, and your emails.  They compile a profile sell you to companies.  Nice, no?