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You be the jury | by SnappingTurtle | 2007-02-16 08:15:20 |
| Does not apply. And that's good it's this way. |
by Qcumber-some |
2007-02-16 09:29:49 |
From a German (European) point of view:
- Collecting information about someone ever has bought at a shop is clearly violating German law (Datensparsamkeit - roughly translated: Don't collect data you don't necessarily need for the service).
- Using the cross references from the database to get a list of everyone who has bought $item is violating another German law (Privacy - information obtained for a specific case/task must not be used for different cases without explicitly notifying the people who are concerned by the information).
- Storing information about what someone bought in an identifiable, traceable way to a specific person violates another German law (Right of Informational Self-determination - roughly: Everyone has the right to have protected privacy, if someone wants to extract identifiable information, he has to ask for explicit permission to do so).
So the answer to your question is (from my point of view, which is German): The shop can't know, and if they'd disclose that they *have* the information, they'd soon be overrun with lawsuits. |
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Objection. | by CynicalRyan | 2007-02-16 09:50:22 |
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