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Rod Speed wrote:

> Gary Heston <gheston@hiwaay.net> wrote:
>> In article <126cl99sc8rsl62@corp.supernews.com>,
>> Gordon Burditt <gordon@hammy.burditt.org> wrote:
>>> 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:
>>  [ ... ]
>>>>> 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.
>>
>>>> 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.
> 
>> Bear in mind also that these databases can be targeted by subpoenas.
> 
> Nice paranoia. Pity that thats just as true of the
> current system without RFID and isnt in fact a problem.
> 
>> Do you want a detailed accounting of your spending habits
>> available to any lawyer or government agency at their whim?
> 
> It isnt now, and RFID changes nothing on that.
> 
>> How valuable would that be in a divorce case?
>> IRS audit? Child custody fight?
> 
> More utterly mindless paranoia.
> 
> Have fun explaining why it doesnt happen without RFID. 

The easier and cheaper it is to collect the data, the more uses will be 
found for it, and governments have a bottomless pit full of money to 
spend on technology when it's for "the public good" or "security" or 
"the children".

It's not paranoia, kid.  How many red-light cameras in your town?  How 
many radar guns?

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Cheers, Bev
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