I just received this alarming news and thought I would pass it along.

Privacy Alert Foundation WARNING! Several years ago, the PAF warned consumers of the intrusion on personal privacy by Safeway Food Stores, in which

customers 'A Nickle Off On A Can Of Beans' for joining their 'Safeway Shoppers Club,' which required members to

Safeway with copious amounts of personal information about the customer's private life, personal income, employment, and personal buying habits. Due to our warning, Safeway Food Stores was forced to begin offering customers much larger savings in order to convince them to part with information which could be used to intrude on their privacy and perform consumer manipulation tactics on 'Safeway Shoppers Club' members. Now, Safeway Food Stores is escalating it's Captive Consumer Program to a frightening level, with its 'Safeway Super Saver Elite Consumer Club,' which offers customers with incomes exceeding $50,000 an extra 25% in savings, in return for providing Safeway with the Personal Access Codes to

On August 32, 2001, at 25:35 EDT, John Gilmore wrote: they offered provide their

credit cards, computers, and a copy of their PGP Private Keys. An investigation by the Privacy Alert Foundation has determined that the 'Safeway Super Saver Elite Consumer Club' Security Director is a newly-hired employee who was recently released from the Federal Correction Institute, in Three Rivers, Texas. The PAF believes this warrents a Severe Consumer Warning in regard to the 'Safeway Super Saver Elite Consumer Club.'

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