Posted on 06/26/2014 3:36:21 PM PDT by Innovative
By now we know that every purchase a consumer makes is added to a list detailing one’s spending and life-style habit, which is used to target people for marketing campaigns and other services. But how would you feel if that information was used by your doctors to keep tabs on your health?
A new report from Bloomberg details how hospitals are using our habits such as buying cigarettes or skipping the gym to create patient profiles in order to identify those who are most likely to get sick.
(Excerpt) Read more at consumerist.com ...
BS. Even if private industry dices and chops your data more, their motivation is to sell you something; not to ration health care, put you on a political enemies list or anything of a sinister nature.
Whatever..cant argue with dumb
Fight the tyrants; use cash.
So they'll know what flavor to give you in detention camp.
Nothing too interesting in my profile -- and I use debit cards normally for which I don't think the same detailed item info is available -- but if I decide to buy some mj next month when the stores open here I'm going to use cash.
Use cash. Your purchases are none of the crooks’ business.
Some officials in some local governments also look at such information on some private individuals—sometimes for a government-linked crony’s gain. They also have access to cell phone records (including cell phone movements)—some from their own fancy communications centers and others through federal offices.
But will they resist the temptation to sell your data to activist groups who want to target you?
Years ago, I read a futurist report from a computer company working with data analysis. They gave a case study called "The Pregnant Gay Man" to illustrate that assumptions can be wrong, and suggested that a gay man could buy a lot of stuff about pregnancy from Amazon to throw his sister a baby shower, and the purchases shouldn't end up in his data profile -- but there would be little way for a computer to actually know why he bought that stuff or to screen it out.
Of course, that was years ago, before there actually was a preganant gay man.
Or rather, the motive is to sell anybody anything. They've been selling contact info to telemarketers and junk mailers for decades. They would happily sell any other data to interested parties.
Besides, any of them that already boast about being involved in some do-gooder "public private partnership" has already telegraphed for which team they play. Those partnerships are nothing but master-servant relationships.
So-called private industry is a thin veneer for the crony capitalism fascist state. Communism by proxy.
ping
My dealer takes the SNAP card...
If you have no trail at all, they will assume that you must be using things that are bad.
You can’t win.
Apparently, the internet has decided that I am very lonely for male companionship. On certain websites, I see huge ads with pictures of many attractive men. Supposedly, if I go to the ad website, I can contact one of those men.
Sometimes, the ads decide that I am looking for Christian men and show the appropriate pictures.
This happens at home and at work. I've been married 33 years. I don't know why I keep seeing all the singles ads.
OTOH, we're planning a vacation to Florida. I'm seeing a lot of Florida ads now, too. They show up below the single men ads.
I have no doubt they will mismatch credit records on file and it will be nearly impossible to correct.
This gets ugly really fast.
“You’re obese, so the supermarket forbids you to buy Little Debbie”
“You’re buying too much alcohol. I don’t care if you SAY you’re having a party - not allowed.”
“Your doctor says you complained about high cholesterol. You aren’t allowed to buy beef unless it is our premium, ultra-lean.”
“You’re buying a lot of romantic items like chocolate and wine on 2/13. The health insurer wants to remind you that you don’t have a contraceptive prescription. You ought to add condoms to your purchase.”
Now we’ll end up with straw purchasers not just illegal for guns, but high calorie foods and products related to embarrassing medical conditions.
If anyone haven’t seen it, it’s worth it — this is how it’s going to be sooner, rather than later — along the lines you were suggesting:
“Ordering pizza” — for once ACLU is on the right side:
https://www.aclu.org/ordering-pizza
It is a pity the ACLU doesn’t stand up enough to the Obama administration, only the most egregious issues.
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