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From: tmkk@ux1.cso.uiuc.edu (Scott Coleman)
Newsgroups: comp.org.eff.talk
Subject: Re: Point of Sale
Message-ID: <1991Jan27.195252.2165@ux1.cso.uiuc.edu>
Date: 27 Jan 91 19:52:52 GMT
References: <9161@uwm.edu>
Organization: University of Illinois at Urbana
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In article <9161@uwm.edu> levine@csd4.csd.uwm.edu writes:
>In my local supermarket the sale is scanned by the now ubiquitous
>laser scanner with, I am sure, the data being stored somewhere.  I
>noted at our last visit that the clerk was keying in our store account
>number (the number we use to speed up the check cashing process) as a
>last part of the transaction.  
>
>They now have in their computer a complete file.  Each item we
>purchased, our name and address and the like.  Who gets that
>information and for what purpose is not under my control.  Check out
>the procedure in your favorite store.

Yet another reason to pay CASH at the grocery store!



-- 
Scott Coleman                                                    tmkk@uiuc.edu

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