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Yes. Don't hassle the poor clerks. They aren't in charge of any of this stuff and certainly don't have the power to change it. Just say "no" and move on.
Well that’s how nothing ever changes. Personally, I will hassle the clerk until he seriously considers working somewhere else. That’s how we get change!
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"I've seen this weapon used against other people, but I have nothing to worry about, they'll never turn the gun on me" Also can be stated as "First they came for the socialists, and I did not speak out—because I was not a socialist."
Are there examples of snack food purchasing habits being used against somebody?
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> Are you buying incriminating goods at the grocery store You mean hummus, right? Or do you mean the store selling of your eating habits pretty much every entity out there. Pretty sure eating isn't HIPAA related, but correlated to potential health.
So the threat model is to prevent insurers from gaining knowledge that you buy 5L of sugary soda per week? I agree there is some privacy concern, but I am having a hard time articulating how or why that data might actually impact a person in a net negative way.
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> Are you buying incriminating goods at the grocery store You mean hummus, right? Or do you mean the store selling of your eating habits pretty much every entity out there. Pretty sure eating isn't HIPAA related, but correlated to potential health.
So the threat model is to prevent insurers from gaining knowledge that you buy 5L of sugary soda per week? I agree there is some privacy concern, but I am having a hard time articulating how or why that data might actually impact a person in a net negative way.
They can drive up the price on the items you always buy until you stop buying as much, or lower the price on certain high price items just enough to attract you to them before they start creeping prices back up. They can use data like what you've bought from them before as well as data like your income level, who the members of your household are, and what your shopping habits elsewhere are.
Store loyalty cards are seen as a great way to start collecting useful data and get consumers used to the idea that some people get (or even deserve to get) different prices than other people. Be cautious of any place that asks you to use an app or scan a QR code to see their menu or prices, and resist the idea that stores should be allowed to discriminate by charging certain people more than others for the same product.
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Club card application information isn't usually validated, you can sign up for one with bogus information.
I think that's less valuable than one would expect for the average person. For example if you rode the bus to the store and paid in cash then you'd have a low correlation coefficient. The issue is most people (at least in the US) drive a car with a publicly registered license plate and use the same credit cards each time. And with things like facial recognition becoming more common it may be near impossible to hide w…
Where is that info publicly available?
Most people are too lazy to get a PO Box and trust paperwork to hold their assets. LLCs work for this, also.
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IME at Safeway if you don't use a "club card" you end up paying nearly double for many items. Are there ways around this?
Local area code + 867-5309
Rendition of the song (bet you can't play it just once):
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=boaJCrHNRMA
Story of the song (along with a history of problems/facts about the phone number itself before and after the song hit):
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/867-5309/Jenny
The band:
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Anywhere that collects your phone number in exchange for coupons at the checkout (cough cough Old Navy) or your email to send you a digital receipt (looking at you Home Depot) is probably sharing or selling your data.
Not probably. They're certainly selling your data.
Sometimes it feels ridiculous how much OPSEC I need to employ to buy anything at the grocery store. I walk or bike to the store to not reveal a license plate. All radios and sensors on my handset are turned off. I wear a mask to thwart facial recognition cameras. I pay cash.
But if you block ads and third-party cookies, which I'm 146% you do with this mindset, that data collection is of no use either way.