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  • From: "Lynn Wigglesworth" <lynnw1366 AT hotmail.com>
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  • Subject: Re: [Homestead] Our digital trail - "Orwellian future"
  • Date: Sun, 30 Nov 2008 16:00:08 -0500

I just wonder how they link all this information to a person. It has to be through something you do voluntarily, like use a credit card, or a store card. or a cell phone. If I didn't want someone knowing what I'm doing, I'd pay cash and not give my name. Maybe loss of privacy is the price of using cell phones, credit cards, airplanes etc...all are a choice.

Lynn Wigglesworth

----- Original Message ----- From: "bob ford" <bobford79 AT yahoo.com>
To: <homestead AT lists.ibiblio.org>
Sent: Sunday, November 30, 2008 3:49 PM
Subject: Re: [Homestead] Our digital trail - "Orwellian future"


Yes, they store the info, and it is already being used. I know you don't believe in using credit cards, but the items you purchas using your store (BiLo) card is connected to your credit card if you have ever used your crwedit card together with that card, even once. If you buy a lot of booze, it can negatively affect your credit, right now. If you use you CC to gamble, buy lots of porn, other vice type activities will immediately affect your credit. Not all of us are churchmarms and it isn't anyone's damn business. I don't do those things myself, but if I wanted to , why should it be anyone's business, but mine.

If you buy cigarettes, alot of booze and ice cream, I have read that comapnies with the help of insurance companies can ferret out that information when determining your candidacy for a job or you apllication for health or life insurance. My own insurance agent, when I started smoking again (before I quit this last time) told me to always buy my cigarettes with cash, and never to use a store card, so there would be no record of the cigarette purchases (he knew I was planning to quit again).

If someone sues you, their lawyer can ask for almost any kind of records, no matter how trivial they appear. They can also ask for your spouses records. It is not funny when it happens to you. It can be used just to bully and harass you ................bobford

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--- On Sun, 11/30/08, Lynn Wigglesworth <lynnw1366 AT hotmail.com> wrote:

From: Lynn Wigglesworth <lynnw1366 AT hotmail.com>
Subject: Re: [Homestead] Our digital trail - "Orwellian future"
To: homestead AT lists.ibiblio.org
Date: Sunday, November 30, 2008, 1:36 PM
> Maybe you will be lucky, and it will never happen to
you. With the data
> being collected they can subpoena your d*mn life.
Everything is recorded.
> If 'they' don't care about my data, why do
they then harvest and record my
> data for perpetuity?
>
>
Do they store all this info? I can understand why they need
the info
connected to my employment (since I'm self-employed,
they only know what I
tell them...they don't even have little check-off boxes
for half of what I
do) and SS number, or my Drivers' License.What else do
they track? Do they
tap into my BiLo Wildcard and know that I eat oatmeal for
breakfast? It's
hard to imagine that there is some central database
somewhere that cares
about the minutiae of my life. The important things in my
life, no one knows
but me.

Lynn Wigglesworth
Tioga Co. PA

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