Posted on 04/19/2025 5:39:14 PM PDT by dennisw
When I started at my current employer in 1991, the out of town trips were per diem based. Every destination had a specified per diem. You managed your spending. Sometimes you finished the trip with unspent cash. It was yours to keep. Not anymore. Now you must pay with a company issued credit card for everything and bring receipts. There are still government per diem tables for your destination, but you will only get actual expenses (the credit card bill) paid by the company. Any unspent per diem stays in the company coffers (they bill the government for the full per diem, but disburse only your actuals). If you exceed your per diem, they send you a bill for the excess. Add the nosebleed of TSA security and uncertain competency of airline maintenance and flying skills and travel is no longer an enjoyable aspect of employment.
One of my Facebook/Linked-In contacts demonstrated using ChatGPT4 to create a fake receipt for a meal at a restaurant. Every detail was covered right down to a slightly crinkled appearance of the receipt. Such receipts are scanned and uploaded to an expense report. The advent of AI and dishonest people might well challenge what the travel departments thought they had all neatly wrapped up with a favorable skim off the backs of the employees.
Anyone who has done any research on where all this tracking tech is eventually headed (total control system eventually) aren't so willing to participate for temporal convenience.
Plus, I just like keeping people employed. Call me old fashioned...
Here is one possible illustration:
(Some profanity warning)
20 years ago I was doing some contract work for the British firm Chep to track pallets of goods. The technology is old and mature. How it is leveraged by a business is the more costly aspect.
One of my co-workers came up with passive, printable codes that can be tracked in 3D space with laser scanners. That fills a different niche than the RFID devices.
I prefer to do my scan & bag, else I end up with 15 plastic bags with very little in any of them.
1. Hosea 4:6 – “My people are destroyed for lack of knowledge: because thou hast rejected knowledge, I will also reject thee, that thou shalt be no priest to me: seeing thou hast forgotten the law of thy God, I will also forget thy children.”
Maybe someone would like a pertinent explanation of that in context.
TFTP!
I’ll take a look
A lot of places can’t find enough workers to staff a human check out line.
Yes that seems the most logical system
IBM developed similar
(Hosea 4:6 )
Thank you for posting that verse
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This is old news. Scan and go has been an option for years.
Actually, no. The surveillance I am talking about is not Sam’s, it’s Big Brother.
I got into an argument at another website over purchasing ammunition at Walmart. The person said Big Brother will know it by looking at your credit card account. The administrator for the site stepped in and said all that is seen at the credit card company is the dollar amount and where and when it was spent. Individual items are not recorded by the credit card company.
Now a cell phone has been proven for a few years now as a wonderful surveillance tool. With this system recording individual purchases on your cell phone, anyone capable of hacking your phone will know what you bought.
Yes, Sam’s keeps track of your purchases, but for Big Brother to get it they’d need a warrant or an agreement with Sam’s to just get it.
“I have carried an Android phone (Motorola or Samsung) as long as they have been manufactured. I like being able to develop code for my phone...not just limited to being an appliance user. The point is that “boomers” aren’t the Luddites you imagine.”
Would you every use banking apps on your Samsung phone? I only do this at home on my windows 11 computer.
I bought a web TV in fall of 1996. I bought a windows 95 computer a year later for internet. The funny thing is, Free Republic worked well with a 56k modem. As well as today and it looks the same. 56k would work today except for all the photos people post today.
I have the Scan and Go, but I usually go so early there’s never a line to check out and it’s faster for me to use the self checkout to scan everything at once.
Compleat with TSA goons?
“The administrator for the site stepped in and said all that is seen at the credit card company is the dollar amount and where and when it was spent. Individual items are not recorded by the credit card company.”
That Administrator is completely clueless to what data is actually being collected. They are selling that purchase data on the market in real time. Maybe only the amount shows on your Card records, but that whole itemized purchase receipt was uploaded to a database with your account number on it. Credit Card companies do exactly the same thing Store rewards and discount cards/apps do. They sell your purchase history marketing data to the highest bidder.
“but for Big Brother to get it they’d need a warrant or an agreement with Sam’s to just get it.”
Unfortunately this is not true. When you sign up for membership you are forced to agree that they can share your data with whoever they like at their discretion. If you do not agree you do not get service/membership. This is the same with ALL contracted services now. Microsoft, Phone Carriers, Phone Apps, Credit Card Companies, Rewards and discount cards/apps, Insurance, Etc.
They all have a data sharing clause in their favor and to even get service you are forced to agree to this 3rd party data sharing. Not only that, the new scam is they also make you agree to Arbitration as the only form of legal settlements. They make you agree that you are releasing your legal rights to sue them. You are agreeing to use an arbitrator of “Their choosing”.
I have watched this happen over the years play by play, and believe it or not this whole contract legal trend they all use now originated from Microsoft’s and Apple’s business models and policies.
Here... Share this with that Administrator and educate them to reality. We sign to let them dig into our underwear drawer...
From Visa’s own Global privacy statement:
Categories of personal information (collected)
Depending on our relationship and interactions with you, the categories of Personal Information we collect may include:
Contact Information – This includes your name, username, mailing address, email address, telephone number, mobile number, and social medial profile names, along with other personal identifiers.
Transaction and Financial Information – This includes:
Information about your card, including your 16-digit payment card number, which is also known as a personal account number or “PAN”; an associated non-financial identifier known as payment account reference or “PAR” token; and expiration date, service code, PIN verification data, and CVV; and
Information about your transactions, including the date, time, location, and amount of the transaction and information about the merchant. This also may include item-level data in some instances, and billing and shipping information.
Relationship Information – This includes information about your shopping and payment preferences and other information that can help us offer you personalized content, such as:
Demographic information, such as age range and marital or family status;
Likelihood that you may be interested in certain purchases or experiencing life events and other propensity scores; and
Data from social media profiles and information about your interests.
Interaction Information – This includes information about your interactions with Visa, such as:
Information collected when you participate in promotions or programs, such as rewards program account information;
Card benefits program information, including qualification data and related records;
Information collected when you contact us, such as if you contact our customer service;
Visitor logs;
Information collected when you attend Visa sponsored events, such as travel-related information for you and any companions gathered at the events; and
Other information you provide us, such as data collected for consumer authentication (e.g., passwords or account security questions).
Biometric Identifiers – This may include facial recognition data, fingerprints, keystroke timing, scroll position, and behavioral data or other physical patterns, such as when you elect to use biometric authentication with Visa or its clients.
Business Customer Data – This includes information about your role within your company, your authorization to use products or services, and your authority to place orders; customer/supplier qualification details; and other data you share with us in connection with the relationship.
Inferred and Derived Information – We infer and derive data elements by analyzing our relationship and transactional information. For example, we may generate propensities, attributes, and/or scores for marketing, security, or fraud purposes.
Online and Technical Information – This includes information regarding your interactions with our websites, applications, or advertisements, including IP address, device identifiers, settings, characteristics, advertising ID, browsing history, web server logs, server log records, activity log records, keystroke timing, and other information collected using cookies and similar technologies.
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Government Issued Identification Numbers – This includes social security number, driver’s license number, passport number, and other government issued identifiers as may be needed for compliance or given the nature of the relationship.
Geolocation Information – This may include precise geolocation information, which we may collect automatically from your mobile device if you opt-in to allow us to collect it.
Professional and Employment Information – This includes professional or employment-related information for employees and prospective employees, including applicant and resume data, such as education and work history; information about qualifications for the position, such as skills and credentials; professional interests and goals; information collected for employee qualifications, such as right to work documentation; and references.
Compliance Data – This includes records maintained to demonstrate compliance with applicable laws; records related to consumer preferences, such as your opt-ins and opt-outs of marketing programs; and records related to data subject rights requests.
Some of the Personal Information in these categories may be considered sensitive Personal Information in some jurisdictions.
Sources of personal information:
We may collect Personal Information about you from various sources, depending on our relationship and interaction with you. These sources may include:
Your financial institutions, payment card issuer, merchants, acquirers, and other partners when you use a Visa-branded payment product or when we’re acting on their behalf, such as when you tap your Visa card;
You, such as when you enroll in card link offer programs from Visa or a co-promotion partner, enroll in a Visa click-to-pay solution, or provide survey responses to us;
Your computer or devices when you interact with our platforms, websites, and applications or through other automatic technologies, such as when we record calls to our call center and use CCTV cameras in our facilities; and
Other third parties, including data aggregators, social media companies, and other publicly available sources. In addition, Professional and Employment Information may be collected from your references and third parties that help us conduct internal investigations and background screenings, and Business Customer Data may be collected from your employer, trade show and conference organizers, and professional services companies.
https://usa.visa.com/legal/global-privacy-notice.html
Oh and Much much more...
Read this... Being tech wise and understanding this reality is WHY I have denounced all this corporate technology and global enslavement. They are all doing this and it is going to just get much worse...
https://usa.visa.com/legal/global-privacy-notice.html
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