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Boron Elgar[_1_]

On Sat, 03 Aug 2019 09:24:03 -0300, wrote:

>On Sat, 03 Aug 2019 08:09:41 -0400, Boron Elgar
> wrote:
>
>>On Sat, 3 Aug 2019 07:53:17 -0400, Dave Smith
> wrote:
>>
>>>On 2019-08-02 11:41 p.m., graham wrote:
>>>> On 2019-08-02 7:09 p.m., Doris Night wrote:
>>>
>>>>> You do realize that 95 points will get you $10 of groceries at Metro
>>>>> or Sobeys? That's all I ever use my air miles for.
>>>>>
>>>>> Doris
>>>>>
>>>> I think they have to be cash points or something. I haven'y figured out
>>>> the gobbledegook on the website.
>>>
>>>
>>>It doesn't help that it is all being done to track your purchases so
>>>they can target your demographic.
>>
>>
>>Any credit card tracks you, it does not have to be a store loyalty
>>card.
>>
>>Besides, any data a bank it wants about you but doesn't already have,
>>they can likely obtain from a data compiler.
>
>When it all started years ago, I was agin it, but I give up now.
>Between cameras and data, nothing is private and since I live an
>honest life I figure, there's not much there that can be used against
>me.
>
>It was always there in one form or another, in 1955 I applied for a
>visa to stay in the US for a couple of months (from Japan) and was
>turned down. My father phoned the US Ambassador to ask him what was
>going on, he checked into it, came back to my father and told him it
>was because they knew I had stood as the Communist Rep in the mock
>elections at school in the UK !!!! He told me I had my visa, not to
>worry.
>
>Makes you think doesn't it? Wonder what the US Embassy in Tokyo would
>think now of Trump and Putin, would they give either a visa lololol

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