Grocery loyalty card purchases surveilled by

[F3SS]

I hate health insurance. Hate it, just the idea on gambling on a person's life for cash seems wrong. Maybe the owners of health insurance companies should go hang out at gambler's anon because they spend all of their time doing it. It is an addiction they too can get help. I guess doing anything to win at playing the ponies is ok though the ponies are people.

Brb going to the store with my ex's card and paying cash on booze, ice cream, and various forms of lub.... oil, yeah oil.

Remember gambling is only bad when you're degenerate. The insurance companies are the house and the house always wins. They'll never feel that they have a problem. Sometimes they can lose though, but it's rare. I only say that cause I just seen a movie called John Grishams the Rainmaker. If ya seen it you'd know what I mean.

[Gromdor]

http://abclocal.go.com/wls/story?section=news/sports&id=9013402 -police scanning plates to put into an information database.

http://www.bankrate.com/finance/credit-cards/how-credit-card-shopping-portals-work.aspx -shopping portals that track your online spending habits to target advertising for you.

http://patients.about.com/od/yourmedicalrecords/a/mib.htm -Medical information database used by life/health insurers.

http://techtips.salon.com/gps-track-cell-phone-23247.html - How to track people with their cellphones. (Information goes to a website/database)

http://knowledge.wharton.upenn.edu/article.cfm?articleid=1208 - Tracking how people drive their shopping carts around in a store to see where to place promotional items, etc.

http://zeenews.india.com/news/nation/riot-software-tracking-peoples-movements-draws-ire-of-rights-groups_828342.html -using social media to track movement.

I could do this forever, but I the point I am trying to make is that it is impossible to do anything without data being gathered from you. In the near future, I see a world where every aspect about you is online and accessable. And the worst part is that others own this information and sell it to each other freely.

[shrooma]

I figured as much, I was just breakin yer yabbos bro.

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seriously guys (and guyesess!)

UM could do with more of the spirit of this.

we're all here with an opinion, or we wouldn't be here.

agreeing to disagree is to be commended.....

....but a little light ribbing never did anyone any harm, right...?

:-)

[shrooma]

I figured as much, I was just breakin yer yabbos bro.

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seriously guys (and guyesess!)

UM could do with more of the spirit of this.

we're all here with an opinion, or we wouldn't be here.

agreeing to disagree is to be commended.....

....but a little light ribbing never did anyone any harm, right...?

:-)

Isn't this invasion of privacy?

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that was the point of the OP lady (or can I call you madam...? :-) ), that this IS an invasion of privacy.

same goes for cookies I suppose;- you're allowed to view their website on the condition that the website owner can tell ANYONE HE WANTS that you've viewed his website.....

[shrooma]

The insurance companies are the house and the house always wins. They'll never feel that they have a problem.

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kudos on this'n brother.

insurance companys (the house) can pretty much charge what they want (initial stake), because they know it's compulsory, there's no getting around it, and you have to keep throwing in your sees and your raises just in case they're bluffing (not paying your claim due to 'consumerism data'), so you end up holding on to the tiger's tail and paying that you don't let go.....

[No Censorship]

Darn it! I just got a Starbucks card...

I wonder if banks do the same with debit cards...

Supposedly, some "see something/say something" people freak out if someone buys coffee with cash. It's supposed to be a sign of links to terrorism. LOL That's according to a DHS list of "suspicious" acts and individuals. That's the same one that claims that some returning veterans might be domestic terrorists.

[No Censorship]

http://abclocal.go.c...orts&id=9013402 -police scanning plates to put into an information database.

http://www.bankrate....rtals-work.aspx -shopping portals that track your online spending habits to target advertising for you.

http://patients.abou...cords/a/mib.htm -Medical information database used by life/health insurers.

http://techtips.salo...hone-23247.html - How to track people with their cellphones. (Information goes to a website/database)

http://knowledge.wha...?articleid=1208 - Tracking how people drive their shopping carts around in a store to see where to place promotional items, etc.

http://zeenews.india...ups_828342.html -using social media to track movement.

I could do this forever, but I the point I am trying to make is that it is impossible to do anything without data being gathered from you. In the near future, I see a world where every aspect about you is online and accessable. And the worst part is that others own this information and sell it to each other freely.

Thanks for posting the links. One wonders what the real reason for all of this growing and spreading tracking is, as you read about this phenomenon each day. Is there an end game in which their plan will be complete, and we'll learn the real reasons for this needless Orwellian nonsense? That's assuming that they have a rational justification, in the first place.

[Gromdor]

Money.

[No Censorship]

Money.

They waste a lot of it on needless spying. On the other hand, many corporations make a lot of it by making the products that are used to spy on Americans.