Re:Rubbish (2002)
by mschuster91 on Tuesday January 09, 2018 @07:00PM
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> but is it prudent to shred register receipts?
I'd say so. First, it makes life more difficult for an attacker who does want to recover sensitive documents (simply: there's a lot more noise from the receipt shreds), and purchase patterns tell a lot about you - in 2012, for example, Target got flak for finding out a girl was pregnant before the girl herself did (http://www.nytimes.com/2012/02/19/magazine/shopping-habits.h...)... for example while you may decide to take all your whiskey bottles to the recycler, when I see weekly purchases of a dozen Jack Daniels bottles I can assume either you are a heavy drinker, or your family likes to heavily drink. Both stuff I could use as extortion leverage.
I prefer to drop the receipts in the store as I leave the property unless there's something on the receipt on which I might want/need warranty worth more than 50€ - it's not tied to me, the store and anyone present at the property can see what I bought anyway and as I like to pay cash for most things now I don't leave any data in big-data analysis companies which match purchases with my DC account data...
I'd say so. First, it makes life more difficult for an attacker who does want to recover sensitive documents (simply: there's a lot more noise from the receipt shreds), and purchase patterns tell a lot about you - in 2012, for example, Target got flak for finding out a girl was pregnant before the girl herself did (http://www.nytimes.com/2012/02/19/magazine/shopping-habits.h...)... for example while you may decide to take all your whiskey bottles to the recycler, when I see weekly purchases of a dozen Jack Daniels bottles I can assume either you are a heavy drinker, or your family likes to heavily drink. Both stuff I could use as extortion leverage.
I prefer to drop the receipts in the store as I leave the property unless there's something on the receipt on which I might want/need warranty worth more than 50€ - it's not tied to me, the store and anyone present at the property can see what I bought anyway and as I like to pay cash for most things now I don't leave any data in big-data analysis companies which match purchases with my DC account data...