[Of course nobody's forcing shoppers to sign up for such cards; if you don't like stores that offer them, take your business elsewhere. --Declan] --- Date: Wed, 1 Oct 2003 08:52:01 -0400 Subject: Card Games From: Rob Carlson <rob@private> To: Declan McCullagh <declan@private> Card Games Should Buyers Beware of How Supermarkets Use "Loyalty Cards" to Collect Personal Data? By Joab Jackson Baltimore City Paper Everyone gets worn down and submits, eventually. Even the most resistant. Even Rob Carlson, a privacy-minded person who hated the idea of having a supermarket savings card. [...] "My job is to design and maintain databases, and I'm constantly amazed at the things that can be discovered when you have enough data and you know how to ask the right questions," Carlson says. "I think a lot of people who use a supermarket club card either don't realize what data is being collected about them, or don't care." [...] http://www.citypaper.com/2003-10-01/feature.html -- Rob Carlson rob@private http://vees.net/ _______________________________________________ Politech mailing list Archived at http://www.politechbot.com/ Moderated by Declan McCullagh (http://www.mccullagh.org/)
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