🚀 go-pugleaf

In article <ethc62h0qjf4aph9ch46bnu4f37kciiuso@4ax.com>,
Bob Ward  <bobward@email.com> wrote:
>On Sat, 13 May 2006 20:51:05 -0000, gordonb.n43x0@burditt.org (Gordon
>Burditt) wrote:
>
>>>You only need to create the link between the ID number and the
>>>person once. Forever after that, all you need is the ID number.
>>>
>>>It's like how supermarket loyalty cards work. They record who
>>>you are in their database when you sign up and they give you
>>>the card with a unique ID. From then on, all they do is scan
>>>the card with that ID and they know who you are.
>>
>>With ubiquitous RFID, a supermarket could create "loyalty cards"
>>without even having to issue them or admit having them.  When you
>>buy something, they record the ID numbers of RFID items you have
>>on you other than their merchandise.  These might be in your driver's
>>license, credit cards, pants, shoes, wallet, etc. and the store
>>doesn't really have to care WHAT they are on.
>>
>>To avoid thinking you are a different person every time you change
>>pants, items seen together often are linked together as being the
>>same person.  The first time they see your driver's license and
>>credit card.  The next time they see the credit card and your new
>>wallet.  The next time they see your new wallet and your running
>>shoes.  Now all of these are grouped together in one record.  Pretty
>>soon they've got a pretty good inventory list of the RFID items you
>>sometimes carry with you.  Some adjustment might be used to account
>>for shared clothing or gifts (which means they can track who you
>>share stuff with).
>>
>>If they even once accept payment in the form of a check or credit
>>card, they've got your name, account number, and maybe an address
>>or phone number.  Now consider what happens when half of the
>>stores in a given city share this info with each other.
>>
>>						Gordon L. Burditt
>
>
>What?  They find out that you've been buying aluminum foil from all of
>them?

They have enough info to steal your identity and charge up a storm on
your credit cards, even if you never used your credit cards in any
of those stores.  And don't say identity theft is a "mindless paranoid
conspiracy".  It's real.  

						Gordon L. Burditt