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Default advantage to giving your real address to the store card

On Mon 21 Apr 2008 09:53:45a, Paul M. Cook told us...

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> "blake murphy" > wrote in message
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>> On Mon, 21 Apr 2008 02:18:41 GMT, "Paul M. Cook" > wrote:
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>>>
>>>Like I said, polls show most people don't care. Who ever would have
>>>thought that your credit rating would affect your car insurance? It

does.
>>>Whoever
>>>would have thought that your credit rating is used to deny medical
>>>insurance? It is. Whoever would have thought banks would raise your CC
>>>rates because you have no life insurance? They do. And on and on and

on.
>>>How do they do it? They all share their databases.

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>> again, i'd like to see a cite for the groceries sharing this

information.
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>>>
>>>Once you see how data mining works, you can't ignore what they can do

with
>>>this information. Take stores they already have electronic POS systems
>>>and they know what sells and what does not and can tell you to the unit
>>>how many cans of tomato soup they sold yesterday. So why do they want
>>>your name attached to that purchase? Why do they want a DL number? Why
>>>do they want a SSN? What you have to think about is not what they will
>>>do with it today, but tomorrow.
>>>

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>> again, i say paranoia.

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> Paranoia, paranoia, WRACK WRACK - poly want a cracker - poly is a
> cracker - WRACK, tweet.
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> Have a happy and safe like, little sheep.
>
> Paul
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>


Paul, you're over the edge with this.

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