What Do You Buy At The Grocery ... Punk?

Posted by timothy on Monday October 8, 2001 @12:35PM from the database-database-database dept.

fifths writes: "I'm not sure how many of you saw this story from the Scripps Howard Washington bureau -- as reported in the 'Washington Calling' column in the 10-07-2001 edition of the Knoxville(TN) News-Sentinel: 'Federal agents are tracking suspects tied to the Sept. 11 strikes through supermarket club cards that may give a hint of ethnic tastes. "Time was, this data was so disorganized nobody could make sense of it, but not anymore. They're looking for people based on their supermarket tastes," says consultant Larry Ponemon, head of the Privacy Council business consortium.' Anyone else bothered by this? Burn your supermarket cards." Better yet, trade your supermarket cards, frequently. (Perhaps with friends or relatives in the furthest city with the same chain?) Maybe Larry Ellison would like to have a few.

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Re:Changing names by Anonymous Coward · 2001-10-09 04:02 · Score: 1, Funny

at Whole Foods, I'm something which I really can't print here, and I'm shocked as hell that I got away with it.

There is, to my knowledge, nothing you can't print on Slashdot. And there is nothing which a majority of the readers would be shocked to see -- except for Bill Gates admitting that Linux was a better OS, or Linus Torvalds admitting that he likes using Windows.