Im boycotting Safeway

[OutHouse]

and i would st!b you with a sharp carrot.


Dont any of you care at all what is out there about you and who has access to it?

 

[Eli]

Originally posted by: Citrix
and i would st!b you with a sharp carrot.


Dont any of you care at all what is out there about you and who has access to it?

Yes, and I would never let them do it.

It doesen't matter if its benign, it's still my personal information, and my property.

 

[Vic]

Originally posted by: FFMCobalt
Honestly, what does it matter if someone scans your ID or not? Jesus christ....

Well... as I (and everyone else here) knows your religious beliefs, Cobalt, perhaps you should try reading Revelation 13:16-17 😉

And then, in that same vein, read Revelation 14:9-11. IIRC, that's the most severe punishment for sinners in the Bible.

 

[rudeguy]

Originally posted by: Citrix
and i would st!b you with a sharp carrot.


Dont any of you care at all what is out there about you and who has access to it?

of course, but there are people and places that need certain info. I dont think you understand how bad the problem of bad checks is. Our small little store gets hit with about $3k worth of bad checks a month. And that with us having very high standards on which checks we do take.

This would be like flipping out if a bank wanted your fingerprint to cash a check. They could find out alot about you from that, but its a necessary risk. If that grocery store ever sold your information and you could prove that they did it without your concent, you would own the place.

just relax and take off the tinfoil hat for a bit

 

[NikPreviousAcct]

Originally posted by: Citrix
and i would st!b you with a sharp carrot.


Dont any of you care at all what is out there about you and who has access to it?

Yes, we care. We also realize that there's already enough crap out there that it's basically pointless to try "hiding" from people. If someone really wants to become you, they will -and there's not a damn thing you can do about it. Would you live your life paranoid, suffering, and inconvenienced if you knew that the odds of someone screwing you over aren't going to change if you lived your life like a *normal* human being and had fun with life? People who obsess over this are just ignorant. My mom's one of those. She's got a shredder and cross-shreds EVERYTHING. Yet she does stupid things like subscribe to newsletters, use credit cards, use department store cards, sign up for crap over the internet (like yahoo's popmail access), have cable TV, buy cars, simply OWN a driver's license, etc. I can go on and on and on.

Lesson #1) By the time you realize that you need to guard your personal identity, you're already fvcked and nothing that you can do can change that.

 

[NikPreviousAcct]

Originally posted by: Vic

Originally posted by: FFMCobalt
Honestly, what does it matter if someone scans your ID or not? Jesus christ....

Well... as I (and everyone else here) knows your religious beliefs, Cobalt, perhaps you should try reading Revelation 13:16-17 😉

And then, in that same vein, read Revelation 14:9-11. IIRC, that's the most severe punishment for sinners in the Bible.

I was going to comment about this earlier, but I'm tired of being called a fanatic. Besides... all "God" has done for me is is build up my life just to fvcking rip it apart. :|

 

[Pepsi90919]

Originally posted by: Zenmervolt

Originally posted by: Jzero
The bar code, not the magnetic strip? I imagine the barcode is just the drivers license number which you gave to Albertson's, anyway. I think you're making a mountain out of a molehill if you're perfectly willing to give them your number manually but not let them scan it more efficiently.

I don't think that either the bar code or the strip have all the info "in" them, they just have the number, which can then be retrieved via a remote connection to a database. So if they have the driver's license number, they have access to exactly the same information that they can get with the bar code or the magnetic strip.

ZV

when my ontario driver's licence gets scanned at the casino, all my info comes up immediately so i'm pretty sure it's stored on there.

 

[Vic]

Originally posted by: FFMCobalt

Originally posted by: Vic

Originally posted by: FFMCobalt
Honestly, what does it matter if someone scans your ID or not? Jesus christ....

Well... as I (and everyone else here) knows your religious beliefs, Cobalt, perhaps you should try reading Revelation 13:16-17 😉

And then, in that same vein, read Revelation 14:9-11. IIRC, that's the most severe punishment for sinners in the Bible.

I was going to comment about this earlier, but I'm tired of being called a fanatic. Besides... all "God" has done for me is is build up my life just to fvcking rip it apart. :|

Hmm... wasn't aware that you have been having a crisis of faith. Sorry to hear.

 

[PKPunk]

maybe someone said this eariler I'm too lazy to read this right now. But my older brother made a bar code read for drivers lic. back in college and he said that it was only legal to read like few tracks on the lic. ie age, name, address, he said everything else was illegal to read off the bar code by anyone who isn't a gov. offical.

Is it possible the bar code scaning is the same way? I'm in California BTW.

 

[Rufio]

I boycotted my local library because they would scan the barcode each time.

 

[yoda291]

Originally posted by: notfred

Originally posted by: fisher

Originally posted by: FFMCobalt

Originally posted by: Yossarian

Originally posted by: notfred
If you don't want people to verify who you are, don't use a form of payment that's tied to a particular person that you may or may not be. Did banks stop distributing cash around you?

way to miss the point!

Well I must have missed the point too. WTF is the big deal about scanning IDs? Bunch of paranoid WHINERS...

they take all your info and make a database to sell to some marketing firm, then you start getting calls (i'm on the national DNC list, guess what, i still get calls) or flyers in the mail or whatever.

i dunno personally i don't think the grocery store needs all that info from me, but then i don't write checks so it's a non-issue for me.

Yeah, they're going to call up my driver's license number, right?

Just an FYI, the DNC list doesn't protect against all telephone marketing and people who call you aren't necessarily violating the DNC list. Any place you've done business with within the past 18 months can ring u up in addition to any business within 50 miles of your residence. Charities can also still solicit freely via telephone.

 

[Kelemvor]

Here's what I got when I submitted my barcode info to that site listed above...

AAMVA required fields for all states
License Expiration Date 10/02/2009
License Issued Date 10/02/2001
Date of Birth 10/02/1974
Sex MALE
State WI

AAMVA optional fields that appear in this barcode

AAMVA optional fields that do not appear in this barcode
Last Name
First Name
Middle Name
Height
Weight
Eye Color
Hair Color
Social Security Number
Height (metric cm)
Weight (metric kg)
Number of Duplicates
Medical Indicator
Organ Donor
Non-Resident
"Customer" ID
"AKA" Date of Birth
"AKA" Social Security #
"AKA" Name


Apparently WI doesn't do much with their DLs. Unless they've changed it since I got mine a few years back...