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Do you want it to be sold to your insurance company? We see that you're a regular coffee drinker which is correlated with increased risk of heart problems -- here's a rate increase.
Maybe we'll get universal healthcare at some point and people will stop rolling out this tired argument.
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Or potentially worse, if they're compromised/hacked in some way and that data simply enters the wild ecosystem.
I still can't see why I should care if some stranger has my purchase history. I suppose some people might feel weird letting strangers or anyone know what they buy, but that's an argument for the ability to opt-out, not for filing a complaint with an agency or starting a lawsuit.
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AFAICT, interest rates are too low (near zero) for banks to make a profit on interest margins alone. You could have a non-profit do the interchange, like the Interac network in Canada, but that would be difficult to coordinate without consolidating all the banks. (Canada has, like, only half a dozen.)
Actually this is solved in the eurozone with that payment method, name forgotten... It is a fundamental bit of what the Euro is about being able to transfer money without the fees.
SEPA?
Unfortunately, credit card companies/banks/etc have been selling purchasing histories, to pretty much all comers, for years. It'd be really nice if we could stop that instead of caring about the particular people they sell it to. IE It's not "better" when they sell it to someone who isn't Google, and I honestly could't give a crap about the complaint, which mostly deals with antitrust.
It's better in the sense that those companies can probably do much less with purchase histories than Google as they have less total information on me (whereas Google has email, web history, photos, etc. if I allow them).
> Google called its advertising approach "common" Tragedy of the commons. At this point in time, any and all forms of data collection have become common. When I visit a website, I expect them to collect everything about me - my IP, my mouse movements, what I clicked, how long I took to click it. Just a matter of time, that they start tracking audio and visual cues as well. It's unthinkable today but we will get there…
start tracking audio and visual cues as well Do you mean microphone and camera, or something else? (If you do mean mic/camera, sites can't access those without prompting the browser to show a permissions dialog and you clicking "ok".)
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I still can't see why I should care if some stranger has my purchase history. I suppose some people might feel weird letting strangers or anyone know what they buy, but that's an argument for the ability to opt-out, not for filing a complaint with an agency or starting a lawsuit.
There's plenty of people who get up to things that would result in severe professional damage if it became public knowledge - I know a handful of teachers who are into BDSM in their private lives who are eternally terrified of their employers or a journalist catching wind. "Some stranger" isn't necessarily the issue, it's someone who has the ability to harm you that's the issue.
Edit: Hrmf, never mind. Egg on my face.
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Maybe we'll get universal healthcare at some point and people will stop rolling out this tired argument.
Okay, how would you like your purchase histories to be used to determine your wealth and companies charge you more for goods and services because they know you can afford to. "I'm sorry sir, our system says your wealth rating is 600, our discounts only apply to people with 400 or lower."
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Maybe we'll get universal healthcare at some point and people will stop rolling out this tired argument.
I live in Canada. Still applies. Just replace health insurance with life insurance, car insurance, or home insurance.
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There's plenty of people who get up to things that would result in severe professional damage if it became public knowledge - I know a handful of teachers who are into BDSM in their private lives who are eternally terrified of their employers or a journalist catching wind. "Some stranger" isn't necessarily the issue, it's someone who has the ability to harm you that's the issue.
Or look at the short term Mozilla CEO that was ousted over a public outcry regarding similar private matters. Edit: Hrmf, never mind. Egg on my face.
> To do this, Google said it had obtained access to the credit and debit card records of 70 percent of U.S. consumers. After reading the initial article in May, I called American Express and they swore up and own they don't sell my purchased data. I don't see how you get above 70% without data from American Express. So who's lying?
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