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From: Kay Ethier
Subject: Re: Free CueCat Device uses Barcodes to launch web sites
>Hate to alarm you, guys, but this very same thing happens when you
scan your VIP card at the grocery store. They give you a lovely
little discount, then bank all your data -- grocery item by grocery
item -- along with your name. Just think how much personal info that
provides...>
Well,
I know this is somewhat off topic but hopefully, someone will find a way to
get it back on topic before Eric zaps the thread..
my wife and I recently started using one of the web-based grocery delivery
companies, so I am assuming that my info is being recorded by them. Howver,
as one of our previous posters pointed out, it's already too late for to
worry about that. The horse has bolted as they say. With all the other
data collection devices out there, your info is already in a multitude of
data bases.
The question becomes, how do we control what happens to it once it is
there???
I don't have tha answer to that one yet, does anyone???
