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Re:Data Mining Exec Pays For Burgers In Cash To Avoid Insura... by adventureful on Saturday June 23, 2012 @05:50PM (#4151916)
Big data mining has made it radically easier / more practical, to mine everybody's purchase records for cross matches on lifestyle choices. In this case, impacting things like health insurance.

By shifting to cash, they can't track any of that.

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