Retailers Deploy Databases Against Customers

A couple of people submitted this piece about retailers using databases to crack down on sub-optimal customers, such as those who return too many purchases to the store. Also has a few tidbits about other database blacklists that are available to companies. Customers avoid intrusive practices; although this story was written by the Washington Post and I have the URL to the original story available, I declined to link to washingtonpost.com because of their intrusive registration.

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[Espectr0]

So are all those NYT stories going to be blacklisted from slashdot just because a registration is needed?

registration?

[laurent420]

who needs to register when you use firefox + bugmenot