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Big Brother in the Dairy Section

How cool/creepy is this?  The CDC has a new way to track food-borne illnesses: your customer loyalty cards. Because the cards track all purchases by customers at the particular chains, the agency was able to trace a recent outbreak of salmonella by looking at the sales records. Some consumer advocates say they worry that the CDC’s successful detective work could make such cards mandatory in the check-out lane.  We say why wouldn't you want to get to the end of your scanning and then see all the savings tick off one after the other? [Star Tribune]

Posted 4:08 PM | Thursday, March 11th, 2010 | Permalink

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And Justice For All
Spies

Source: flickr/jovike

Shhh…Someone’s Listening

Raw Story has links to newly declassified documents that show the U.S. military spied on Planned Parenthood as part of their security preparations before the Winter Olympics in Salt Lake City in 2002. The docs don't explain why the military would spy on Planned Parenthood or how they collected information, but the documents do say the Pentagon Deputy Inspector General admits an "intelligence oversight violation occurred" in allowing the military to spy on Americans. [Raw Story]

Posted 2:45 PM | Friday, February 26th, 2010 | Permalink

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