advantage to giving your real address to the store card
"blake murphy" > wrote in message
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> On Mon, 21 Apr 2008 16:53:45 GMT, "Paul M. Cook" >
> wrote:
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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.
>>>
>>> again, i'd like to see a cite for the groceries sharing this
>>> information.
>>>
>>>>
>>>>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.
>>>>
>>>
>>> again, i say paranoia.
>>
>>
>>Paranoia, paranoia, WRACK WRACK - poly want a cracker - poly is a
>>cracker - WRACK, tweet.
>>
>>Have a happy and safe like, little sheep.
>>
>>Paul
>>
>
> again, you can't provide the information to back your assertions, so
> you insult me (not very effectively). typical.
>
It's probably your bubbly personality that invites so much attention.
Paul
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