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Date: Mon, 9 Feb 1998 09:00:12 +0100 (CET) From: Lucky Green <shamrock@cypherpunks.to> Subject: Re: Driver Licenses
The clerk at my local 7/11 assured me the information captured would not be forwarded to a central site. Yet. It appears the stores are installing these systems to protect themselves against police sting "test buys", in which the authorities take persons just days shy of their 21st birthday, put theater makeup and/or a gray beard and wig on them and thus entrap store clerks into selling controlled substances to minors.
As any fool can predict, the information captured will not remain local for long. After all, the system is ideal for monitoring gun^H^H^H alcohol purchases of parolees, tracking down deadbeat dads, etc.
I have worked doing technical support for McDonalds in two of my past jobs. I assure you that when they dump the stores records each night they are dumping this as well. They dump gas sales from the automated machines as a matter of course. The real question is who besides Southland Corp. subsidies are they selling this info to? ____________________________________________________________________ | | | The most powerful passion in life is not love or hate, | | but the desire to edit somebody elses words. | | | | Sign in Ed Barsis' office | | | | _____ The Armadillo Group | | ,::////;::-. Austin, Tx. USA | | /:'///// ``::>/|/ http://www.ssz.com/ | | .', |||| `/( e\ | | -====~~mm-'`-```-mm --'- Jim Choate | | ravage@ssz.com | | 512-451-7087 | |____________________________________________________________________|