🚀 go-pugleaf

"The Real Bev" <bashley101+usenet@gmail.com> wrote in message 
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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?
>
> -- 
> Cheers, Bev


you forgot "for the animals".   i'm really getting sick of the evening news
ALWAYS figuring out how to put kid and/or animals into a story.   do i
care that one of the occupants of a house that caught on fire was a kid? 
NO.
do i care that the family pet made it out alive?  NO.