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Mar 10 2010
03:32:pm
CDC uses shopper-card data to trace salmonella
Not sure about this. Certainly a public health benefit in this case, but what about the potential for abuse? I never liked those things for reasons like this.
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My grocery store card lets them watch a guy called Axel Rose with a wierd address and a phone number that won't work.