Quote Originally Posted by Don Corleone
They also sent a detailed questionaire on our eating habits, education, racial makeup, the whole 9 yards... The reason?
They sell your information to statistic companies. The same way grocery stores with a discount card that they scan when you make purchases, sells your information to statistic companies. My understanding is that it is a lucrative business and pays the providers of the information well (in the case of grocery stores the $ received for the info far outweighs the % off the products they offer. Stores usually only do it for a few years and stop, because by that time the stat co. has gotten all they want and wont pay as much anymore).


On the topic… I don’t have much of a problem with it. Seems like a reasonable next step to fingerprinting. Plus “big brother” already knows what I buy at the store (see above) he might as well have my DNA too .