[DrCaleb]

Brenda Brenda:

DrCaleb DrCaleb:

Brenda Brenda:

The government has all that with one push on a button. Or they should have anyway.
I remember when stores started tracking your buying-behaviour by using your debit card info.

It's actually illegal for government departments to share your information among themselves. And that's the way it should be. But it's not illegal for a foreign government to collect that same info, collate it and share it back to your government. End run around the law!

And if stores could collect information on my purchasing habits from my debit card, I would stop using it.

LMAO!
They do. Not that they are actively using it, or that someone is going over your stuff (just like the government it is not. It is a machine...)

They can't. My interac card has no personal information on it. Neither does yours. They can't share what they don't know. And I regularly go to my branch and get another card that was on a stack of other cards, none of which has my personal info on it.

Brenda Brenda:

What makes you think government departments are SHARING your info among themselves or anyone? Just because they collect it, doesn't mean they share it.

?? I know they cannot share, because it's illegal for them to share. That was what I said.

Brenda Brenda:

I don't really give a crap anyway. The government knows where I was because of the electronic tolls, where my speeding tickets are written, who files my taxes for me and how much I made.

As above, Public works or Transport is not allowed to share your toll data with Revenue. It's illegal.

Brenda Brenda:

The phone company can track where I was because my phone is on. *shrugs*

But they don't record that, or share it with government.

Except for this whole Prism thing.

[DrCaleb]

BartSimpson BartSimpson:

DrCaleb DrCaleb:

And if stores could collect information on my purchasing habits from my debit card, I would stop using it.

See, this is kind of funny.

The stores don't use your debit card information because that would be illegal. But there's no law against a store buying a list of their customers from the banks and then using that list anyway they want.

http://www.globalpaymentsinc.com/GPDB/A ... oc_ID=1159

They don't have unencrypted information with which to track any of my previous transactions. Only the bank knows which card is associated with my accounts, and selling my account information is illegal.

[BartSimpson]

DrCaleb DrCaleb:

They don't have unencrypted information with which to track any of my previous transactions. Only the bank knows which card is associated with my accounts, and selling my account information is illegal.

Sure it is. It's also illegal for the NSA to read all of your emails and to catalogue all of your phone calls.

[Thanos]

Taking four laptops full of information to China and Russia is also probably illegal but for some reason no one wants to talk about that.

[Brenda]

Thanos Thanos:

Taking four laptops full of information to China and Russia is also probably illegal but for some reason no one wants to talk about that.

[martin14]

Brenda Brenda:

What makes you think government departments are SHARING your info among themselves or anyone? Just because they collect it, doesn't mean they share it.

Because it all went to the NSA.

$1:

I don't really give a crap anyway. The government knows where I was because of the electronic tolls, where my speeding tickets are written, who files my taxes for me and how much I made.
The phone company can track where I was because my phone is on. *shrugs*

You are exactly the sheep they are looking for.

[martin14]

BartSimpson BartSimpson:

DrCaleb DrCaleb:

They don't have unencrypted information with which to track any of my previous transactions. Only the bank knows which card is associated with my accounts, and selling my account information is illegal.

Sure it is. It's also illegal for the NSA to read all of your emails and to catalogue all of your phone calls.

Oh I so want to be in the White House when that shoe drops.

[Brenda]

martin14 martin14:

Brenda Brenda:

What makes you think government departments are SHARING your info among themselves or anyone? Just because they collect it, doesn't mean they share it.

Because it all went to the NSA.

$1:

I don't really give a crap anyway. The government knows where I was because of the electronic tolls, where my speeding tickets are written, who files my taxes for me and how much I made.
The phone company can track where I was because my phone is on. *shrugs*

You are exactly the sheep they are looking for.

Nope. I'm Dutch. Makes a lot of difference.

[martin14]

Brenda Brenda:

Nope. I'm Dutch. Makes a lot of difference.

OK, you're a cow then.

[DrCaleb]

BartSimpson BartSimpson:

DrCaleb DrCaleb:

They don't have unencrypted information with which to track any of my previous transactions. Only the bank knows which card is associated with my accounts, and selling my account information is illegal.

Sure it is. It's also illegal for the NSA to read all of your emails and to catalogue all of your phone calls.

I think it's legal for the NSA to read my emails, just not to read yours. It's also legal for CSIS to read yours, and not mine. So they swap info!

But what the security services get away with isn't what the banks want to try to f- with.