> wrote in message ...
> Mark Thorson > wrote:
>
> > 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.
>
> Do you have any proof that shopping loyalty card information
> is used in the manner you describe, or are you just expressing
> your paranoid opinion?
>

I asked him the same question the other day and from his reponse it is
nothing more than a bit of paranoia.


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