Forget Milk and Eggs: Supermarkets Are Having a Fire Sale on Data About You

Re:Forget Milk and Eggs: Supermarkets Are Having a Fire Sale... by pixl97 on Thursday February 16, 2023 @03:07PM (#34825105)

> Are you buying incriminating goods at the grocery store

You mean hummus, right?

Or do you mean the store selling of your eating habits pretty much every entity out there. Pretty sure eating isn't HIPAA related, but correlated to potential health.

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Re:Forget Milk and Eggs: Supermarkets Are Having a Fire Sale... by nanidin on Thursday February 16, 2023 @03:10PM (#34825157)

So the threat model is to prevent insurers from gaining knowledge that you buy 5L of sugary soda per week?

I agree there is some privacy concern, but I am having a hard time articulating how or why that data might actually impact a person in a net negative way.

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Re:Forget Milk and Eggs: Supermarkets Are Having a Fire Sale... by fsflover on Thursday February 16, 2023 @03:58PM (#34826018)

What if I buy everything gluten-free?

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Re:Forget Milk and Eggs: Supermarkets Are Having a Fire Sale... by pixl97 on Thursday February 16, 2023 @03:59PM (#34826031)

http://web.archive.org/web/20071221122513/http:/cqpolitics.c...

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Re:Forget Milk and Eggs: Supermarkets Are Having a Fire Sale... by mrguyorama on Thursday February 16, 2023 @04:56PM (#34827020)

I literally don't care if places don't do anything with this info, I'm saying they have no right to it. If they want it they can negotiate with me and I'll give them an insane price. Right now they just do it whether I consent or not.

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