"Mark Thorson" > wrote in message
...
> "" wrote:
>
> > Why in heavens name does he need to know specifically
> > what John, or Mary bought today ?
>
> It's entered into databases used by insurance companies,
> law enforcement, trial lawyers, etc. For example, if you
> tell your health care insurance company that you're a
> non-smoker to get a lower rate, but you buy a carton
> or more of cigarettes every week, they'll collect your
> insurance premiums while your healthy but deny coverage
> when you get an expensive disease like lung cancer.
>
> Or if you have an accident while driving, if the other
> guy's insurance company can show you bought a bottle
> of booze an hour earlier and the cops didn't do a
> blood alcohol test, this will be used to call into question
> whether you were sober while driving.
>
> Or if you run for school board against a rich guy, and
> he hires private investigators to check you out, they'll
> access the database to see if you make any purchases
> that suggest lines of investigations. Like if you buy
> a package of condoms every Friday, they will follow
> you around on Friday to check out what's going on.
> Are you cheating on your wife?
>
> This kind of information is worth a lot of money,
> often more than the actual products being sold.
>

I think this is a gaggle of paranoid horseshit. I may be wrong but I have
never seen any reliable of even semi-reliable evidence that supports your
contentions. If you have such evidence please provide it.


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