> 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.
As Mr. May has clearly stated in the past, most
businesses--absent a law requiring them to collect the
information--will choose the sale over the gathering of information.
For instance with Alcohol, you currently only have to display
an approved ID demonstrating you are over a certain age. There is no
*mandated* tracking. If you choose to be tracked (for instance by
using some sort of store supplied "discount card", you get what you
deserve.
> 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.
Probably because at the time most Librarians were Socialists.
Today things would be *very* different.
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