Too many places are getting too much of our information. I guess this is something I will just need to get used to whether I like it or not.

i also agree with you. you should have been told first and given the choice.
companies can make any policy they want but the consumer should be able to decide if they want to do business under those terms.

ok, i live in ny, and when it comes to checking for age there is 2 ways to do it here, type in the dob, and it tells you yes or no, or scan the back of our liceneces and photo id, ny state cards. they have a bar code on the back of them, and if identy theft wasnt an issue id put mine up but seeing as it it,, its so not gonna happen lol. anyways, peopel cought on to target scanning the licences instead of typeing in dob and peopel started asking questions and got the atterny general involved,. here in ny and probly in other states,
target is scanning in you infor name age dob addy and sex, now they take that infor along with a computerized copy of ur total recpit, (so they can see what was bought) now they take all this info and put it into a program and what this program dose, is tells target, in what stores in what locations and in what states things are selling, so they know the consumer trend, and then from there they try to talor each store to the consumors wants and buys in that area. what is scary though is, target can easly get your emial threw that info and thats how u wind up with random emails from target now adn then about sales and coupons that u dont remeber singing up from, FORTHERMORE. that infor that target has gatherd up sometimes is sent to other marketing companies that target is partnerd with to help there reusrach along with its been rumored that target sells there info on there customres to other resurch companies, Now im not lieing about this, this was a big news storie a while back, here in ny. anytime u go to a store and when u cash out they ask u for ur zip code its for resurch info, to see how far u are coming from, to see sometimes how much peopel from that area are spending in total. After reading this CALL TARGET back and tell them, i jsut found out this is what you are doing in your stores in ny, so its not that hard to belive that you are doing the same here, Y DID YOU LIE TO ME, and if they cant give you a straight answer, TELL them well since u cant answer me, maybe the news can get an answer our of u, if they get mad short answerd or deffencive, u know they r trying to hide it from the public there. anyways thats what happens with target here in ny, and the only reson we found out about it was becuse enough of us nykers though it was funny asked questions and when we werent getting told we called our atterny gerneral who buy law had to investigate witch then news got involved, and it blew up on tv liek somethen feirce and now target dosnt try to hard to do resurch secretly here in ny for fear of retaliation again, however i dont belive there being completly honest with us consomers here in ny either

I live in NY and the response I got was they only wanted my dob. Period. I have that email and will print it out and save it. I think I'll send an email right back to her...thanks for your input r.s.d. sucks!

hey, it was a couple of years ago when the target and ny thing blew up all over the tv. im trying to rember who coverd it, it might have been a 20,20 or 60 mins thing, but i know it was on the local news as well, i will see if i can find the vido for it,, youtube has evryhting so i might be able to find it there and send u the link
glad i helped some

You try not to be paranoid, try not to believe all the stuff you hear, and then there are these things. sheesh.



In Ohio, there are several stores that want your home phone # - for what? I ask. Oh, just for research. I always give them the pizza place's number. and say - You really think most people tell you THEIR phone number?



With a line of people standing right behind them? Seriously.... You tell me yours, first.

Call me paranoid, when the day comes I have to hand over my ID to be scanned, I'll only pay with CC. They can only take cash, and I can fight that out with the CC company and probably not have to pay a dime I did not spend.

I also always keep a po box. A few people/companies balk about that, and I tell them they can't deliver direct to my house anyway - you gotta cross a creek, leave your truck, climb over a fallen tree and hike two miles up a hill - it's purty rocky. You wanna do that with a package?

I can sign for stuff at th ePO same as at my door, and ebay people do not need to know exactly where I am.

braingonebad - if I am asked for my phone number "for mailing purposes" I just tell them it's unlisted.