You don't have to have everything linked. Google, Fakebook, and the other big tech companies are all concluding to build a profile on you, and that includes your spending, friends, shopping habits. Everything!
I use Amazon from time to time, and now the SOBs know it's me without even logging on. How? They have a profile saying this is my computer, and most likely it is through cookies or some more insidious methods that they know it. The right to privacy has completely died in the USA and the world. It needs to be brought back and those abusing it brought down.
Credit card link. The question is, how did they link your ISP to your credit card? Ever bought anything online from Walmart? It’s a great big wonderful world of invasion of privacy.
Your credit card companies, despite having you choose the level of “privacy” (false sense of security), generally leave themselves the ability to exchange your information with their “partners” - that is, in reality, anyone they can make a dime off of selling them your information.
Credit card A is used on the Walmart app to purchase something - and drops a cookie or two on your device. Credit card B is used in store. Name match, dumps your purchase data into same file folder in a Big Brother conglomeration site.
Ever wonder why, when you’re just browsing completely unrelated sites online ads pop up with the exact items you looked at a couple days ago?
They’re all one big happy Big Brother operation. Expectations of privacy are ill-founded. Just another issue that needs to be addressed once the DS filth is eliminated.
Um....I got drinks at McD’s two years ago (haven’t been back) ...bought 3 larges at three different times (long driving day) and the last cashier said....wow you must have been thirsty today....number 3 eh? Credit card.
Just wait until they push for a cashless society....
If you purchase with a debit or credit card, they will know and keep a record. if you take advantage of their offers, or customer loyalty cards, they will know.
The "towers" on each side of the entrance/exit doors are also scanners and will even record tags on clothing that was purchased at Wal Mart.
I haven't been to WalMart in at least 6 years.
Dr. Kathryn Albrecht, a consumer privacy advocate did the most complete studies on these matters a LONG time ago. Some of her material is still online. Most recent I have found per startpage, which SHE founded, was 2015. All she says sounds like today's news. She was way ahead and aware!
I’m old enough to know when credit cards first came out for the masses.
I had a feeling it was a bad idea. So convenient, no need to go to the bank to withdraw cash. And there were no ATMs, so bank had to be open. So much waiting, ohhhh noooo.
Mass credit card debt and stress for impulsive young people.
Before credit cards you could buy an item on “layaway,” pay small amounts and then you could get the item... made you save up for it, delay gratification.
Tracking purchases, who hasn’t known this for years?
I chatted with a someone once who worked in a bank... 1980s .he predicted cash would be gone by the year 2000. I disagreed, saying people won’t give up their cash any more than they will give up their guns. Cash insures privacy. So far I’m right.
I too remember the first emergence of credit cards. Back then it was super-embarrassing to use them to buy something because they knew you were poor and couldn't afford it so had to buy on credit. I hated it.
Somewhere on the internet there is an old documentary "The secret history of the credit card" where it explains exactly how it all started in Sioux Falls, USA.
Hmm I think I need to look into finding a credit union or community bank that doesn't share info about what type of purchases I'm making. Until then, your cash idea is the way to go.
Their point of sale program most likely is using your credit card number, or debit card number, do you have a payment app installed on your phone? It probably connected your online purchases with that payment account number.
Edit: I forgot to add, that when you fill out all of that information online, it's connecting it to in store purchases using that card. I used to be a small scale POS manager for a small chain of health food stores. POS as in point of sale, not the other meaning.
You have the app, the app tracks you. You may have a credit card on the app, which it now can track. your phone has GPS. It can track you even when you don't make purchases, Your CC, may also be on another app like google play store, or another store, amazon, Netflix, etc. They could easily share this data and have all your CC numbers to track you by. There are plenty of fusion centers to hold a lot more data as well.
When you create a Walmart account, you have to set a primary credit/debit card to use for purchases. This card is then linked to your account, so whether you purchase online or in the store, you will have the item(s) on your purchase history.
A side note: this content is not appropriate for this website. If you read your terms of the Walmart account before agreeing to them you would have known this. Please delete your post.
I ask all my friends if they have a store card and if they do then I take a photo of it on my phone. When I go to a store I use one of the cards at random. The checkout barcode readers will read the barcode from a photo just fine. It's a win-win because the friend receives the bonus points and I feel good because I threw out decoy chaff to avoid being tracked.
Used the same credit card...
OP is a fucking idiot ?
You don't have to have everything linked. Google, Fakebook, and the other big tech companies are all concluding to build a profile on you, and that includes your spending, friends, shopping habits. Everything!
I use Amazon from time to time, and now the SOBs know it's me without even logging on. How? They have a profile saying this is my computer, and most likely it is through cookies or some more insidious methods that they know it. The right to privacy has completely died in the USA and the world. It needs to be brought back and those abusing it brought down.
Credit card link. The question is, how did they link your ISP to your credit card? Ever bought anything online from Walmart? It’s a great big wonderful world of invasion of privacy.
Your credit card companies, despite having you choose the level of “privacy” (false sense of security), generally leave themselves the ability to exchange your information with their “partners” - that is, in reality, anyone they can make a dime off of selling them your information.
Credit card A is used on the Walmart app to purchase something - and drops a cookie or two on your device. Credit card B is used in store. Name match, dumps your purchase data into same file folder in a Big Brother conglomeration site.
Ever wonder why, when you’re just browsing completely unrelated sites online ads pop up with the exact items you looked at a couple days ago?
They’re all one big happy Big Brother operation. Expectations of privacy are ill-founded. Just another issue that needs to be addressed once the DS filth is eliminated.
Um....I got drinks at McD’s two years ago (haven’t been back) ...bought 3 larges at three different times (long driving day) and the last cashier said....wow you must have been thirsty today....number 3 eh? Credit card.
Just wait until they push for a cashless society....
Are you seriously asking?
If you purchase with a debit or credit card, they will know and keep a record. if you take advantage of their offers, or customer loyalty cards, they will know.
The "towers" on each side of the entrance/exit doors are also scanners and will even record tags on clothing that was purchased at Wal Mart.
I haven't been to WalMart in at least 6 years.
Dr. Kathryn Albrecht, a consumer privacy advocate did the most complete studies on these matters a LONG time ago. Some of her material is still online. Most recent I have found per startpage, which SHE founded, was 2015. All she says sounds like today's news. She was way ahead and aware!
Home Depot, and others, do the same thing
I’m old enough to know when credit cards first came out for the masses.
I had a feeling it was a bad idea. So convenient, no need to go to the bank to withdraw cash. And there were no ATMs, so bank had to be open. So much waiting, ohhhh noooo.
Mass credit card debt and stress for impulsive young people.
Before credit cards you could buy an item on “layaway,” pay small amounts and then you could get the item... made you save up for it, delay gratification.
Tracking purchases, who hasn’t known this for years?
I chatted with a someone once who worked in a bank... 1980s .he predicted cash would be gone by the year 2000. I disagreed, saying people won’t give up their cash any more than they will give up their guns. Cash insures privacy. So far I’m right.
I too remember the first emergence of credit cards. Back then it was super-embarrassing to use them to buy something because they knew you were poor and couldn't afford it so had to buy on credit. I hated it.
Somewhere on the internet there is an old documentary "The secret history of the credit card" where it explains exactly how it all started in Sioux Falls, USA.
Hmm I think I need to look into finding a credit union or community bank that doesn't share info about what type of purchases I'm making. Until then, your cash idea is the way to go.
Their point of sale program most likely is using your credit card number, or debit card number, do you have a payment app installed on your phone? It probably connected your online purchases with that payment account number. Edit: I forgot to add, that when you fill out all of that information online, it's connecting it to in store purchases using that card. I used to be a small scale POS manager for a small chain of health food stores. POS as in point of sale, not the other meaning.
10$ they know when you last took a dump
Based on my previous purchase of 28 rolls of toilet paper and air fresheners?
You have the app, the app tracks you. You may have a credit card on the app, which it now can track. your phone has GPS. It can track you even when you don't make purchases, Your CC, may also be on another app like google play store, or another store, amazon, Netflix, etc. They could easily share this data and have all your CC numbers to track you by. There are plenty of fusion centers to hold a lot more data as well.
Was it a card connected to any app or website at all? In the end, we all know how it knows, you are being tracked, we all are.
I know a guy who can tell you the very first thing you ever searched for on google. The things he can do are scary and immoral.
Because you linked your accounts together somewhere
Never link accounts, anon.
When you create a Walmart account, you have to set a primary credit/debit card to use for purchases. This card is then linked to your account, so whether you purchase online or in the store, you will have the item(s) on your purchase history.
A side note: this content is not appropriate for this website. If you read your terms of the Walmart account before agreeing to them you would have known this. Please delete your post.
Krogers knows what I have purchased because I use my rewards card.
I ask all my friends if they have a store card and if they do then I take a photo of it on my phone. When I go to a store I use one of the cards at random. The checkout barcode readers will read the barcode from a photo just fine. It's a win-win because the friend receives the bonus points and I feel good because I threw out decoy chaff to avoid being tracked.