At 10:44 PM 07/29/2002 -0400, Duncan Frissell wrote:
http://villagevoice.com/issues/0230/baard.phpBuying Trouble
In which the Village Voice discusses the use of commercial databases including supermarket discount cards in hunting terrorists.
One useful piece of advice:
Don't but pizza with a credit card: Oddly enough, "one of the factors was if you were a person who frequently ordered pizza and paid with a credit card," Ponemon says, describing the buying habits of a nation of college students. "Sometimes data leads to an empirical inference when you add it to other variables. Whether this one is relevant or completely spurious remains to be seen, but those kinds of weird things happen with data."
Course all those terrorists buying their pizzas with cash get away clean.
Nah - buying delivered pizza with cash is obviously indicates money laundering to hide cash from drug transactions... Especially if the recording of your call starts out "like, wow, man, we'd like some pizza. Yeah, pizza! Oh, wait, what do we want on it? Shrooms and pepperoni? and like Everything but the little fishies, man!" New Jersey's Pizza Connection case a few years ago busted a dozen or so pizza shops for delivering other products as well as pizza, primarily heroin.