From: utzoo!decvax!cca!ima!inmet!porges Newsgroups: net.politics Title: Re: a new topic: privacy - (nf) Article-I.D.: inmet.36 Posted: Thu Mar 3 03:37:29 1983 Received: Tue Mar 8 02:33:01 1983 #R:hplabsb:-139700:inmet:7800001:000:537 inmet!porges Feb 28 13:31:00 1983 Privacy? OK, here's something to worry about: some book stores around here (Cambridge MA) have cash registers that record exactly what books you bought, for return purposes. If you pay with a credit card, this means that somebody somewhere might be able to figure out what you read. If you buy, say, several anti-nuke books over a year, maybe you could (in a paranoid world) get put on some list of people who bear watching. I'd worry... -- Don Porges ...harpo!inmet!porges ...hplabs!sri-unix!cca!ima!inmet!porges