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Does swearing make you feel more grown up?
Does being the language police make you feel more grown up?
No, but successfully trolling three people while making my point does!
Never Give Stores Your Zip Code
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Re: Never Give Stores Your Zip Code
#52Earlier quoted context omitted.
Does being the language police make you feel more grown up?
No, but successfully trolling three people while making my point does!
Are you sure you know what website you're on? Have you forgotten you have identifying personal information in your profile? What do you anticipate future employers' reactions being to discovering you are a proud troll? Do you really think they'll want to work with you, or have your name associated with their company?
Re: Never Give Stores Your Zip Code
#53Harvard's Data Privacy Lab runs a simple "identifiability" web site.
Submit your DOB, sex, and zip, and they'll tell you approximately how unique you are therein, based on Census data.
Giving stores a false but consistent zip doesn't help, but using a new one every time might. Or, if we could all agree on a false zip to use, that would skew the data away from Census-based estimates. However, with DOB and gender data, it might just ID us uniquely within the adopted HN zip code.
Re: Never Give Stores Your Zip Code
#54Earlier quoted context omitted.
No, but successfully trolling three people while making my point does!
Are you sure you know what website you're on? Have you forgotten you have identifying personal information in your profile? What do you anticipate future employers' reactions being to discovering you are a proud troll? Do you really think they'll want to work with you, or have your name associated with their company?
My ZIP is 98104. That should be able to get you my home address, if the noted PII is not sufficient for you.
Re: Never Give Stores Your Zip Code
#55Earlier quoted context omitted.
Are you sure you know what website you're on? Have you forgotten you have identifying personal information in your profile? What do you anticipate future employers' reactions being to discovering you are a proud troll? Do you really think they'll want to work with you, or have your name associated with their company?
My ZIP is 98104. That should be able to get you my home address, if the noted PII is not sufficient for you.
I don't want your home address, I want you to realize this isn't reddit, 4chan, or whatever other group home for thugs has convinced you that deliberate antisocial behavior is normal or acceptable.
Re: Never Give Stores Your Zip Code
#56Earlier quoted context omitted.
My ZIP is 98104. That should be able to get you my home address, if the noted PII is not sufficient for you.
I don't want your home address, I want you to realize this isn't reddit, 4chan, or whatever other group home for thugs has convinced you that deliberate antisocial behavior is normal or acceptable.
Then you shouldn't have participated in that behavior.
Re: Never Give Stores Your Zip Code
#57Doesn't this article completely miss the actual glaring privacy issue that there is a database of name-address-phones out there that is complete enough to only have a few duplicates that a simple zip takes care of? Giving out your zip shouldn't be that big of a deal, the reason it is is because your name and address is listed on whitepages ;)
whitepages? My cell phone is not in the whitepages and I haven't had a landline for years.
Re: Never Give Stores Your Zip Code
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They do actually do this in the UK http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/uknews/9994089/DVLA-made-10m... This is how car parking companies get your home address from your number plate to write you threatening letters.
The agency sold the details at a rate of around 50,000 a week, totalling 2.4 million in a year, to approved companies that give out parking fines and clamp cars. Key here is probably "approved company". Even though: I admit it's a slippery slope. If they just sell such information to any shyster that asks (and pays) for it there probably would be quite an uproar and it would almost certainly be counter to the EU data…
Approved company usually just means a BPA registered company, This is a trade organisation made up of parking companies that has no government affiliation at all. It's so parking companies can make a formal set of rules they agree to oblige to self regulate with and avoid the government making real laws to stop these people.
It really doesn't mean anything.
Re: Never Give Stores Your Zip Code
#59I'm located in Germany and when asked I (and others I know) always say 25869. That's Germany's smallest zip code, a remote island with only 5 people living there. Stats should look funny for that zip :) What's the smallest zip in the US?
While funny indeed, statistically speaking you'd be giving them the least amount of information by supplying the largest zip code.