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 @03:14PM (#34825217)

I think that's less valuable than one would expect for the average person.

For example if you rode the bus to the store and paid in cash then you'd have a low correlation coefficient.

The issue is most people (at least in the US) drive a car with a publicly registered license plate and use the same credit cards each time. And with things like facial recognition becoming more common it may be near impossible to hide who you are in the future.

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Re:Forget Milk and Eggs: Supermarkets Are Having a Fire Sale... by landemva on Thursday February 16, 2023 @04:02PM (#34826089)

> drive a car with a publicly registered license plate

Where is that info publicly available?

Most people are too lazy to get a PO Box and trust paperwork to hold their assets. LLCs work for this, also.

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Re:Forget Milk and Eggs: Supermarkets Are Having a Fire Sale... by JohnFen on Thursday February 16, 2023 @04:50PM (#34826916)

> Where is that info publicly available?

In my state, you just ask the DMV for it. For a yearly subscription fee, you can ask their servers.

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