From: Jim Choate <ravage@ssz.com>
Date: Mon, 9 Feb 1998 22:21:43 +0800
To: cypherpunks@ssz.com (Cypherpunks Distributed Remailer)
Subject: Re: Driver Licenses (fwd)
Message-ID: <199802091425.IAA20569@einstein.ssz.com>
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> Date: Mon, 9 Feb 1998 09:00:12 +0100 (CET)
> From: Lucky Green <shamrock@cypherpunks.to>
> Subject: Re: Driver Licenses

> The clerk at my local 7/11 assured me the information captured would not
> be forwarded to a central site. Yet. It appears the stores are installing
> these systems to protect themselves against police sting "test buys", in
> which the authorities take persons just days shy of their 21st birthday,
> put theater makeup and/or a gray beard and wig on them and thus entrap
> store clerks into selling controlled substances to minors.
> 
> As any fool can predict, the information captured will not remain local
> for long. After all, the system is ideal for monitoring gun^H^H^H alcohol
> purchases of parolees, tracking down deadbeat dads, etc.

I have worked doing technical support for McDonalds in two of my past jobs.
I assure you that when they dump the stores records each night they are
dumping this as well. They dump gas sales from the automated machines as a
matter of course. The real question is who besides Southland Corp.
subsidies are they selling this info to?


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