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["Lynn Wigglesworth" <lynnw1366 AT hotmail.com>]

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
>
> ----------------------------------------------------------------------------
>
>
> --- 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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