Margaret: Supermarket 'cookies' targeted by law enforcement

[Edward Britton <fremin@geocities.com>]

Margaret:

>It appears that the practice of supermarket purchase data being
>made available for investigatory purposes may be going mainstream.
>In one recent case, a major national chain admitted that it had
>provided "club card"purchase information, under subpoena, to
>investigators (in a drug enforcement case) who wanted to know if a
>particular person had bought largenumbers of plastic garbage bags.
>Apparently such purchases may be anindication of involvement with
>illicit drugs (or, perhaps, lots of deciduoustrees in the backyard?
>Are garbage bags classified as a "dual use"
>technology?)

So, what's the beef? Those cards are so convenient and they save us so much
money. Never mind what the data we surrender to supermarkets may be used
for, CONVENIENCE IS AT STAKE!

You wouldn't want to be branded a member of the right wing lunatic fringe,
would you?? (ROFLMAO)

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