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Originally posted by dynofish: ↑

Hi Prem...That is at the same time shocking, and yet somewhat unsurprising, in this day and age where massive data bases exist to correlate information.

I have a background in banking and way back when in the 1970's or 80's, I made an internal suggestion about using spending patterns of "bankcard" transactions...yes, in those days the local banks were the sponsor of the mass market credit cards (not mastercard or visa). It was not really until database software came into widespread use 20 or so years ago, that analysis of massive volumes of data became relatively easy. I do not have too much concern about the credit cards because it does not result in serving of advertisements to me. I am very cautious about sharing personal data. A friend who is very well educated about commerce and investing even uses a "burner" email address to put into the "required" field of the many online forms we are required to fill in, if he sees it as data harvesting.

I have also said as much on these threads in relation to the occasional promotions of petitions against short selling or whatever...so pervasive is data harvesting that one needs to be on the ball...that's of course if you care!? Well I do care, and my mobile phone (which is old) enables me to turn off the tracking functions of apps which I avoid (no facebook or X). It's not fool proof, but I work hard at pushing back against the big brother age we live in.

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I frequently get asked for a mobile number when buying items in shops. I say no every time. On forms 021234567 is quick and [email protected] seems acceptable too . I have also set up my own email and use the name of the company as the first part. E.g [email protected]. That way you can see who is using my data .

Mind you I have a man in china who will turn my house lights on and off.

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