You don't need to be identified by name, just by a "fingerprint". If you go there regularly you will be identified by your "fingerprint".

"Oh, it's that one privacy nut again who always wears sunglasses and a hoodie and only pays in cash"

And the store person will then what? Open excel wnd write "a dude with glasses was ehre at 12:51"? and then send the file to 100+ partners?

>You don't need to be identified by name, just by a "fingerprint". If you go there regularly you will be identified by your "fingerprint".

So the physical stores have some shady dudes attempting to lift fingerprints from money then some statistics guy try to put probabilities on which fingerprint matches which anonymous guy?

here in my country you still pay with cash and the store people put it in a machine combine it with money from other people, it will be a lot of work and risk for some shitty nano reward.

Edit typo

it is cash, not cache.

(By the way, a gym can and usually does share contract data including personal information with numerous third-parties such as external bookkeepers. This is legal under the GDPR without explicit consent.)

Why is it legal, does the gym need those 100 contractors to know my data for it to work? What are those for 100 different accountants? How did gyms or other businesses worked before the internet, did a guy walked to 100 different locations with papers in hand so those "partners" take a quick look?

If they want to send you a letter, they have to give your data to the postal service. Again, no consent needed.

This is legal because our whole economy is based on devision of labor. Privacy laws account for that.

My problem is with the 100+ partners that are OBVIOUSLy not partners and not required to have my data.

False equivalence, no online stalking company actually works like that (that would require a server-side hook). They all make the visitor go to the third party's desk and increase the tally themselves (via http request), giving the tracker company access to all the contact details of the visitor.

Before the internet, the owner took a shoe box of receipts to their bookkeeper every month. Those receipts had your name, date, etc. on them.

How, when I buy stuff in real world and pay with cash I don't ask for an Id Card, so why do you think the store needs names on the receipts? Is this something that happens in your country? For buying cars,land you need an Id, if I buy even an expensive electronics no Id is needed I just return the product and the receipt that has no name on it back.

I remember when my grandfather was doing accounting for a bar before Internet days, they papers were about the stuff not about people, like how many bear was bought, how much was sold stuff like that.