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

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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
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