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Re:The Google Wallet, a lifetime log of your purchases by mapleoin on Monday September 19, 2011 @04:51AM (#3012812)
Let's say you like tomato sauce very much and you buy too much of it. Your neighbor three doors down from where you live is found dead one day in his bathtub. He was drowned in tomato sauce which the bathtub is full of.

You're the prime suspect, even though you didn't even know your neighbor, you've never spoken to him in your life and didn't even know he existed. The only incriminating evidence the police have found on anyone so far is your purchase history (or maybe you also googled for "death by tomato sauce drowning" once when you were in high-school?). If everything turns out alright you enjoy being interrogated for a few days and have a good story to tell for the rest of your life.

Re:The Google Wallet, a lifetime log of your purchases by iand on Monday September 19, 2011 @09:10AM (#3013373)
How is this different from your local store pointing you out as the guy who bought 3 crates of ketchup last month?
Re:The Google Wallet, a lifetime log of your purchases by swombat on Monday September 19, 2011 @09:37AM (#3013464)
Efficiency.
Re:The Google Wallet, a lifetime log of your purchases by mikeklaas on Monday September 19, 2011 @12:52PM (#3014264)
So, slightly less time until you get fucked? Not exactly a compelling problem.
Re:The Google Wallet, a lifetime log of your purchases by spot on Monday September 19, 2011 @09:13AM (#3013387)
this has nothing to do with the search history.
Re:The Google Wallet, a lifetime log of your purchases by yayadarsh on Monday September 19, 2011 @11:36AM (#3013930)
It has everything to do with purchase history, which is the topic of the thread.
Re:The Google Wallet, a lifetime log of your purchases by spot on Tuesday September 20, 2011 @09:40AM (#3017472)
No, sorry, this thread is about Google Wallet, and the possible linking of search history to purchase history. Just plain purchase history is made with any regular credit card.