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From: cyberoid@milton.u.washington.edu (Robert Jacobson)
Newsgroups: comp.org.eff.talk
Subject: Re: ShopperTrak POS System
Message-ID: <15365@milton.u.washington.edu>
Date: 29 Jan 91 04:54:59 GMT
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>Re Datatec, the people-scanner device

It doesn't take too much imagination to consider hooking up this
person-scanner to a closed-circuit TV and then tracking buying
behavior in a most intimate way.  But I guess you really don't
need the scanner; it just makes the process more efficient.

Bob J.