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Moe DeLoughan

On 1/22/2014 12:28 PM, wrote:
On Wed, 22 Jan 2014 12:22:14 -0600, Moe DeLoughan
wrote:

On 1/22/2014 11:18 AM, Bob F wrote:
Moe DeLoughan wrote:
On 1/22/2014 4:28 AM, wrote:

The bottom line is this. It appears that you MUST have a Walgreens
card to shop in their stores now. If you dont have one, they charge
you DOUBLE the price listed on the shelf.

Well, if you really wanted the savings, you could always create a fake
name and address and use it to fill out the loyalty cards.

Which only works if you NEVER use anything but cash to pay.

Yes. If you want to limit the amount of detail in your personal
dossiers, you'll try to pay with cash as much as possible. Purchases
made with check, debit or credit card are linked to you and the
retailers sell that information to the data collection companies. That
information, along with that supplied by lenders, insurers, employers,
landlords, and all the publicly available data about each of us,
creates an incredibly detailed personal profile. And it's available to
anyone willing to pay for it. One of the companies sold profiles that
included banking and SSN details to a bunch of foreign hackers who
used it to commit identity theft.

Got a citation? That would make them an accomplice in fact.

Experian Sold Consumer Data to ID Theft Service

An identity theft service that sold Social Security and drivers
license numbers — as well as bank account and credit card data on
millions of Americans — purchased much of its data from Experian, one
of the three major credit bureaus, according to a lengthy
investigation by KrebsOnSecurity.

....Martin said he first learned of the ID theft service after hearing
from a U.S. Secret Service agent who called and said the law
enforcement agency was investigating Experian and had obtained a grand
jury subpoena against the company.

http://krebsonsecurity.com/2013/10/e...theft-service/