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Re: Why Blockbuster looks at your ID.
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (John Levine)
Mon Jul 11 13:49:07 2005
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Date: 10 Jul 2005 15:41:17 -0000
From: John Levine <johnl@iecc.com>
To: cryptography@metzdowd.com
In-Reply-To: <20050710034254.GA11408@lightship.internal.homeport.org>
Cc: adam@homeport.org
>| Not having to show ID may save annoyance, but it doesn't significantly
>| improve privacy.
>
>Most credit card issuers will happily give you extra cards, so your
>friends can spend your money. In whatever name you want. If you need
>to show ID, this can become, umm, complicated.
I dunno about your bank, but my credit card banks want the name,
relationship, and SSN for each extra card, and they tell me in various
ways that if I lend the card to anyone else, anything bad that happens
is my problem.
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