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Really? What if it includes alcohol sales? Do you want the state to know how much alcohol you consume?
You can’t buy alcohol at the supermarket in Norway.
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#22Gestapo's dream. I think they did in fact track purchases--not very efficiently--to find who was hiding Jews in their basement.
Though maybe at least if it's government-tracked that's better than only being corporate-tracked.
And there have to be escape-hatches.
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#23This is insanity and will definitely lead to abuse.
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#24"SSB claims they want a less time-consuming way of collecting and analysing household consumption statistics in order to inform tax policy, social assistance and child allowance." Aka the more we know about you, the more efficiently we can create policies to control your behavior to our liking.
Or to tax you more efficiently.
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Yeah you could haha I think the majority of the public wouldn't care about their food purchases being tracked.
Sarcasm? I think most people should care about this.
because I used the same credit card at Whole Foods as linked to my amazon account my last shopping trip there showed up in 'recently purchased' and 'suggestions'. are we upset because the Norwegian government is getting the same information that Amazon is clearly mining?
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#27Earlier quoted context omitted.
Really? What if it includes alcohol sales? Do you want the state to know how much alcohol you consume?
You can’t buy alcohol at the supermarket in Norway.
You can buy alcohol at the supermarket in Norway, it's just that it's limited to alcohol of 4.5%vol. or lower (i.e. the supermarkets sell beer and alcohol cider and the like).
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Yeah you could haha I think the majority of the public wouldn't care about their food purchases being tracked.
Really? What if it includes alcohol sales? Do you want the state to know how much alcohol you consume?
In case you were unaware, all liquor stores in Norway are run by the government — “vinmonopolet” as they are called.
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#29People seem to suddenly forget that these transactions are already tracked and individually linked to you. Should we allow anyone to collect that data except democratically elected governments? What's the logic behind this?
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#30"SSB claims they want a less time-consuming way of collecting and analysing household consumption statistics in order to inform tax policy, social assistance and child allowance." Aka the more we know about you, the more efficiently we can create policies to control your behavior to our liking.
Video analysis, grocery delivery data sold to data brokers, etc. are unregulated in some places like the US. So you are much more likely to have, for example, your health insurance revoked for whatever untransparent reasons in places where this kind of data collection is all in the private sector.