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Yesterday was laundry day, which means that I'm jumping up every 33 minutes to go out and switch the loads of clothes. In between, I was vegging out and flipping channels - C-SPAN...Sci Fi Channel...FoxNews....Food Network (my wife set the 'Favorites' on this one)....C-SPAN. I don't recall which channel it was on, but there was one commercial that got me thinking about something.
The commercial was about consumer protection on your credit card(s). The actor was saying "I got a call from my credit card company asking if I had purchased two surfboards in Redondo Beach. I said NO!!".
What puzzled me was this:
People aren't getting all foaming-at-the-mouth about Citibank or Bank of America or whoever monitoring your credit card purchases and noting 'peculiar purchases' but they are getting rabid about the government possibly using library records to see who checks out 'Bomb Making for Dummies'.
What's up with that?
At least the government is trying to keep Americans safe whereas the credit card company is trying to reduce it's net losses from credit card fraud.
It just stymies me - people get really nervous about the government doing it's job yet don't bat an eye when the private sector does the same task.
Ugghhhh - go figure.....
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scroff said:
There is concern, Mikey, but here's the deal... credit card companies have always been monitoring
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There is concern, Mikey, but here's the deal... credit card companies have always been monitoring your purchases... it's called a bill. The problem is when that information gets into the hands of the gov't. Right now it's still protected under the Privacy Act, they can't get it without a warrant or subpoena. The concern is about MATRIX, which NY was involved in but dropped out of due to privacy concerns.
The FBI having access to library files is much different. They don't need a warrant or subpoena and can check anybodies records, not necessarily for Bomb Making for Dummies either. We don't know, and, thanks to the gag order, won't know what they look for... see trusting the USPS vs the Pentagon below ;)
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