, Once upon a time in a land far away MareCat was alleged to have said:
> On Sun, 18 Jul 2004 16:40:56 GMT, Mark Thorson >
> wrote:
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>>"" wrote:
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>>>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.
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>
> LMAO!! Mark, you remind me of my older brother (whose name is also
> Mark). *Very* similar sense of humor.
>
> Mary
Sadly, . . . he WASN'T joking. He really seems to believe that nonsense.
Oops, gotta go now . . . The black helicopters are coming to get me.