One for the techies

"Jonathan Cook" wrote in message
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Wolfgang wrote:

Really. I mean, you might as well use a credit card to buy
stuff......right?

A debit card is no different...

Well, there must be SOME difference. I have it on good authority that debit
card users are even stupider than the 95% of credit card users who are too
stupid to use them responsibly.

but you're right, I've often
thought that if a bank wanted to carve a niche for itself it
could offer a "high privacy" credit card.

Thereby boosting that 95% to 100%. I mean, there's nothing like a flashing
neon flag next to one's name to ensure privacy, huh?

But it's probably
the MC and Visa companies that are doing the tracking anyways.

Leaving aside the charmingly naive notion that it matters much just who is
collecting the information that is then bartered around the world, one is
still left to wonder where someone who thinks that banks could carve a niche
by offering "high privacy" credit cards gets the idea that banks aren't
doing some of the tracking anyways.

Still, Google seems to be shamelessly promoting a "give us
your data" agenda. I use google everyday, I like it, they have
a great search engine, I like their news site, but there's no
way I'm letting them handle my mail or desktop.

I wouldn't worry too much about it if I were you.......as long as you keep a
good supply of tinfoil hats on hand you should be o.k.

Meanwhile, I don't use Google for news......largely because I have some
reservations about the value of a news service which seems to have missed
the fact that the privacy horse left the barn a long, long time ago.

Wolfgang
whose "debit" card, incidentally, earns points redeemable for travel and
fantastic high tech doodads with every purchase made with the "credit"
option......and without the high stress 5% requirement of having to remember
to pay off the balance each month.