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Supermarket Loyalty Cards Vs National ID Cards
john.wingfield writes "The BBC is running a story on a speech David Blunkett, the British Home Secretary, has given on ID cards and supermarket loyalty cards. He criticises the data protection arrangements for the loyalty cards whilst simultaneously (hypocritically?) promoting his own national ID card scheme, which is exempt from the Data Protection Act 1998. See also the UK Information Commissioner's (data protection and freedom of information watchdog) concerns about the ID card scheme."
The stores in my area have a huge price differential between tracked and untracked. A 5-15% difference I could conceivably be convinced is a discount. But I simply cannot imagine that a 50%+ "discount" is anything other than a jacking up of the undiscounted price. I won't claim to speak for the stores you shop at, but around here it's quite obviously more a matter of punishing the untracked than rewarding the tracked.
Quantum materiae materietur marmota monax si marmota monax materiam possit materiari?
Wow, looks like I pissed someone off; two comments on the subject modded down within five minutes of posting.
Here, ya missed one.
Quantum materiae materietur marmota monax si marmota monax materiam possit materiari?