Martin Hotze wrote:
On Sat, 19 Aug 2006 05:35:51 GMT, Matt Whiting wrote:


It is not =my= shopping at WalMart

that invades my privacy, it is the result of =other= people shopping
there that does.

This makes no sense at all. How so?


profiling.

profiling can also be done with knowing all the facts about the people
around you. eg: the percentage of dogfood sold in your neighborhood is
higher than average. Then one can assume that you too might have a dog
(without knowing that you buy dogfood).

Bunk. Assuming stuff about me doesn't invade my privacy. People had
done that for centuries. It is called gossip.

I never realized that Wal-Mart generated so much paranoia.

Matt