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Re:The surveilled society: Who is watching you and how by mnahkies on Sunday August 11, 2024 @06:40AM (#41215267)
AFAIK level 3 data is essentially receipt line item level data.

I'd actually find it pretty cool to get access to my own level 3 data for smarter budgeting/analysis (eg: automatic tracking of food stocks, separation of spend on luxury foods from basics etc), but I've not found a way to get access as an individual yet

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Re:The surveilled society: Who is watching you and how by com on Sunday August 11, 2024 @09:54AM (#41216158)
Merchants seldom submit L3 data with transactions for stupid legacy tech reasons. The card schemes encourage them to do so with bips off scheme fees for doing so, but it’s a minority of transactions I think with even L2 data.
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Re:The surveilled society: Who is watching you and how by hammock on Sunday August 11, 2024 @10:02AM (#41216223)
The merchants usually don’t (to the data brokers at least), that is correct. But backdoored firmware on the POS could send it anywhere, no?
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