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blue
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 Posted: 05/30/05 - 18:54 Post subject: your shopping habits, their club card, data, and the Police
so here's a question...
y'know how everytime you fill out a form for 10% off all your purchases and the like, and you get a card, and it tracks everything you do - or everytime you make a return... well it all goes into a database... and they aren't supposed to share it (unless you say they can).
do the police have access to that?
i'm wondering if (for instance) i would want the police finding out that you're a frequent shopper at Teds Dirty Videos and Magazines..
hmmm.
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Noley
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Posted: 05/30/05 - 18:56 Post subject:
I hate to tell you, but I believe that people can get access to just about anything on you blue. Reals.
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DCRunningDiva
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Posted: 05/30/05 - 18:59 Post subject:
| nolefan85 wrote: | | I hate to tell you, but I believe that people can get access to just about anything on you blue. Reals. |
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brie k
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Posted: 05/30/05 - 19:00 Post subject: Re: your shopping habits, their club card, data, and the Pol
| blue wrote: | so here's a question...
y'know how everytime you fill out a form for 10% off all your purchases and the like, and you get a card, and it tracks everything you do - or everytime you make a return... well it all goes into a database... and they aren't supposed to share it (unless you say they can).
do the police have access to that?
i'm wondering if (for instance) i would want the police finding out that you're a frequent shopper at Teds Dirty Videos and Magazines..
hmmm. |
Just use cash at the places you don't want people to know you frequent. Seriously. That's why we have ATMs on the corner of every other block.
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Posted: 05/30/05 - 19:04 Post subject:
Are you a fugitive?
Maybe you should invest in the anti brain scan hat.
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Sahara
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Posted: 05/30/05 - 19:25 Post subject:
It's not the dirty books and toys that bother me so much, hypothetically of course, it's the fact that they track my frickin time o'the month! I stopped buying such products at places where they use a discount card for the sale prices.
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blue
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Posted: 05/30/05 - 19:39 Post subject:
i don't have anything to hide - i just hate them knowing everything about me.
as for ATMs - my jackass bank "consolidated" and took atms out of the major malls for a convenient super location - that no one in their right mind would go to. EVERYONE goes to the mall, and they moved it. WHY!?
but that's another issue.
anyway, i think i'm going to setup a second name for all the cards and stuff i use. that'd be fun. i hate them "knowing" me.
they make billions of dollars and they *need* my info? blah spend some money and figure it out.
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rolling rock
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Posted: 05/30/05 - 19:40 Post subject:
my head hurts.
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Posted: 05/31/05 - 06:32 Post subject: Re: your shopping habits, their club card, data, and the Pol
| blue wrote: | so here's a question...
do the police have access to that?
i'm wondering if (for instance) i would want the police finding out that you're a frequent shopper at Teds Dirty Videos and Magazines..
hmmm. |
Rest easy friend, its VERY difficult for anyone to find out what your Video Rental habits are simply because there is a FEDERAL LAW protecting that info.
Why? well it seems when they were trying to confirm Judge Robert Bork for a Supreme court Seat - a reporter got a hold of his video rental list. Our elected reps figured out anyone could get that info so to keep the puplic from knowing what they watch, they passed a law.
Obviously, if there is a crime the police can get a subopena but you really have to show probable cause as why your video renting habits have a direct link to the crime...
As for the other data... Yes that's a problem but like others have said - just use cash or forego the discounts.
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