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Friday, February 6, 2004 |
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Great Taste, Less Privacy. More and more bars and restaurants scan patrons' driver's licenses, ostensibly to verify age. But the licenses contain lots of valuable information, and the temptation to use the data for marketing is hard to resist. By Kim Zetter. [Wired News] Buy a drink for Big Brother while you're at it.
Visitors to an art exhibit at the Pittsburgh Center for the Arts got more than their martinis when they ordered drinks at a bar inside the gallery's entrance. Instead of pretzels and peanuts, they were handed a receipt containing the personal data found on their license, plus all the information that could be gleaned from commercial data-mining services and voter registration databases like Aristotle. Some patrons also got receipts listing their phone number, income range, marital status, housing value and profession. For added effect, the receipt included a little map showing the location of their residence.
So much for privacy. |
Once again, the Wizard of Whimsy hits a home run. |
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Iran 'has secret atomic bomb project'. America has convincing new evidence that Iran is hiding an atomic bomb project despite Teheran's promise to open up all of its nuclear facilities to international inspectors. [Telegraph News | Front Page News] But, but, but.....
Tenet Concedes Gaps in C.I.A. Data on Iraq Weapons. The director of central intelligence said that U.S. spy agencies may have overestimated Iraq's illicit weapons capacities. By Douglas Jehl. [New York Times: NYT HomePage] |
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