And then the grocery sells that info to a national database that
adds it to all the other info on you. Which the cops can access to see
just how much alcohol Tim is using these days, and maybe they need to put
his vehicle description/plates on a watch list to stop for DWI checks
whenever they see him on the road. Or perhaps he's been buying books on
meth at Amazon and they need to pay his house a visit, because that's
probable cause.
Most libraries vetoed the idea of "customer tracking" long, long ago,
after the FBI started visiting libraries demanding that they be given the
records of what certain people -- commies -- were reading. Library
computers automatically delete the record of who had a book immediately
after it's checked back in.
>
>
> At 03:14 PM 2/25/2000 -0800, Tim May wrote:
> >
> >
> >A better analogy is this: does a grocery store owner have the "right" to
> >remember the fact that Tim May bought several sixpacks of beer on his trip
> >to the grocer's store?
> >
> Actually it's more like the store owner logging your name when you come in
> just to take a look at his price for beer (and he doesn't even have to ask
> you, because his security system will just query your ID smartcard). And
> while he's at it, checking which store you came from and which one you're
> going to.
>
> jay
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