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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.
Which is a nice thought, however what we saw in the last four years of Bushtopia is that anything that impedes a company's ability to make a buck will be opposed.
Here's a sample Republican press release about a future, hypothetical Democratic attempt to expand the FCRA, as you suggest:
``Democrats want to take away your right to pay less at Best Buy. Support the President, God, and your country by opposing the Democrats' attempt to charge YOU more MONEY.''
Alright, here goes my karma...
Anytime an idiot prefaces their post with that, they really are saying, "This goes against what the typical slashdot reaction is, so watch me karma whore the sympathy mod!"
WHEN THEY REMOVE ALL ADS FROM THEIR SITES, well,
I STILL WON'T GIVE THEM MY PERSONAL INFORMATION.
If you like them so much, then marry them!
There are PLENTY of places, a lot less biased, that
provide basically the same information FREE (cost
and intrusion). I don't need what they have...
People are getting charged higher insurance AUTO, HOUSE whatever just for having a low credit score. So forget that discount you may be getting when you turn 25 they can just turn around and say you have a low score and it makes you a risk.
The kicker is that they say they dont know what specific information on the reports causes their score to go up or down it's just a number they are presented with. Which they then say you are entiteled to a free credit report.. hey stuff may be there but what specific item makes me a bad driver?
I've never been in a wreck.. so I find it unfair.
The problem is really not bad customers, it's republicans.
These are the people that barge to the head of the line like they are better than others.
These are the people returning things that they damaged and lying about it
These are the people that when exit polled were nasty and told the person polling that "they didn't have to talk to them"
Republicans are in the end just NASTY people, and it's Europeans that cannot fathom the nasty, rude behavior of republicans. They have never seen the depths of lying and crookedness that republicans will seep to in an attempt to cheat the system or someone.
Good luck. it's all just going to get worse before it gets better.
Reality is all that stuff that doesn't care if you believe in it or not.--Solomon Short
Ok, All BS aside, there's just something a bit creepy about a gay man taking a bunch of little boys out in the woods. 2 cents, Queen B
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