Went For A Haircut Today...
FIFTH GEN WARFARE
As a walk-in, there was one stylist and nobody getting serviced. She asked for my phone number (I had been there before) and to verify the name, she verified the last 4 of my SSN. WHAT THE FUCK ELSE DO THEY WANT TO KNOW ABOUT WHAT I DO OR BUY OR SEE?!?! Shit's getting creepy as fuck. SMMFH...
I wonder how they got their hands on your SSN. Is this a national chain? I usually get my hair cut at Supercuts and if they have my SSN I'll be pissed.
The slow silent creep of Tyranny is full of mindless yes men and women. As creepy and fucked as it is, if nobody stands against it and allows it then it exists. All evil needs to succeed is for good people to do nothing.
Fact
I used supercuts and she said they have a "profile" on every phone number in their system.
Hmm. Now what entity is selling a mall chain hair salon client's SSNs? And why?
I would have wished her a good day and walked out. There are other barbers out there.
That's the sort of thing we all have to do.
Don't take cash? Goodbye.
Need private data? Goodbye.
I flew American about a month ago. Before getting on the plane they didn't let me show my boarding pass. They just took my picture with a big screen, it clicked green and said I could board. I never sent them pictures or have signed up for such things. I guess I'm in the system.
Uhaul is now taking headshots for a rental.
We need another list of companies to boycott.
Getting to be like the spam email folder. Mine only allows 500.
Home Depot uses facial recognition cameras both in store & outside. A fren works night shift stocking there and all of the employees had to have facial scans so the new cameras in the parking lot could identify them as such.
Interesting.
Wanna know what spurred this event? The city was donated over two dozen new mobile security camera units last Fall. They plopped them all over the city and local news claims "they deter holiday shoplifting". That's literally what the locals were told on TV & radio...
Anyhow, we're talking a city with a population of about 20,000 in red fly over America. Not a big city at all, it's spread out thinly. And to my knowledge, there is not a significantly high percentage of "holiday shoplifting" in this area compared to any other place I've lived.
Yeah. I felt really downtrodden. Like I don't even have a social media account and keep a low profile and they know who I am.
Your driver’s license
It was international. Maybe they scanned my passport at some time. It was leaving the US in Dallas.
International flyers have been giving hand and facial scans for re-entry to the USA at most major ports of entry for many years now.
I would demand they delete that from your profile
When did you give her that SSN information? And, why would you?
If you didn't give it to her, did you demand to know who did?
I have walked out of businesses, never to return, for less.
Remember when the Chinese were demanding anal swabs?
That sure sounded like an Obama plot to me.
I could see my woke colleagues getting behind this. "Bro, we have to be 100% certain you don't have an asymptomatic cold."
That's not right.
I cut my own hair. I have never flown on a plane. I have never ridden a train or touring bus other than a school bus. I have never been on a ship. Got rid of all credit cards. Cash only.
But I bet you own a cell phone.
Actually, no, I don’t.
For reals ?!!? I thought I was the only living soul in the world without a cell phone.
Lol……there are still a few of us out here without cell phones. Not many, but a few.
I walked out of a hair salon / barbershop during COVID when they gave me the OR-state mandated query of my data (phone # and other things, I forget exactly what). Just WAY too intrusive for a damn haircut. The state's excuse, of course, was COVID tracking . . . was I, or had I ever been, near someone who MIGHT have had COVID. . . .
bull fucking shit, nobody asked for your ssn for a haircut
I never gave it to them but they already have it? That's the REAL bullshit.
My dentist's office asked for my ssn.
Why do you need that I asked.
Flustered, the receptionist said we need it for the billing.
No, you don't I told her. I will be paying in full before I leave today.
They never asked again.
I learned to cut my own hair using clippers. I was shocked how easy it is and how when I was done I could not believe that it looked as good as going to the barber. That was 2 years ago. You used to be able to walk into any barber prior to 2020 and get a cut, now they want all your demographic info to make an appt. Fuck them!
Where do you live please?
AZ
That's crazy that they'd ask you for your last 4 of your SS#. There is no legitimate reason that I can think of.
She didn't ask. She TOLD me my last 4.
Wait, what? That is scary
This started way back when hospitals were using SS# for patient medical records. Where I worked 10,000 employees were hacked.
So when I moved and had my med records sent to my new doctors/hospitals they all had my SS number. Imagine the thousands of people that have access to my number.