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Re: I can see it from the merchants perspective... Posted by Justin VanAbrahams [Email]  (#32) [Profile/Gallery]
(more from Justin VanAbrahams) on Fri, 5 Aug 2011 15:16:48
In Reply to: I can see it from the merchants perspective..., Morgan   [Profile/Gallery]
, Fri, 5 Aug 2011 13:13:07
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I am not familiar with "Lockdown High," but the quote "Schools with the most security measures and harsh disciplinary policies actually have more disorder and violent incidents" sounds like correlation and not causation. That is like saying "warzones with the most military hardware present suffer the largest casualty rates." Duh. My campus had (and has to this day) no guards, no fences, no security patrols and it was a pretty peaceful place to go to school. That doesn't mean it's a model for high schools in Oakland.
I understand the erosion of personal liberty that comes under the guise of safety and, yep, it sucks. But some of those losses arrive hand in hand with conveniences we have created for ourselves. Your ability to not carry cash - a tool that is easily lost or stolen - and instead carry a safe and convenient credit card comes with the loss of a certain amount of anonymity. You are trading the safety of your monetary resources for the safety of your identity. It would be super if citizens of the modern world could enjoy all of its conveniences with no compromises in personal liberty but that simply isn't reality. Everything comes with some sort of cost.
The comedy of this - to me - is that you are focusing on sharing your address and driver's license number with some minimum wage employee at a chain restaurant and completely ignoring the fact that the simple act of using your car has allowed a private organization to add one more detail to a very fine picture of who you are, which they in turn sell to numerous other monstrous organizations. This data is sorted, compiled, and used against you in ways you can't even imagine now, and will be positively horrified to think about in a few years. If you want to talk about a risk to personal liberty, that risk is perpetuating the use of personal credit mediums. In the world of tomorrow, your best hope for anonymity and personal safety is that someone borrows your identity and creates a bunch of bogus data about you. If you are the only one generating data about yourself you are one more easily tracked, sorted, and manipulated data point in corporate America's (the world's?) hands. *That* is scary.
Now, before you think I am some nutjob, I assure you I make *heavy* use of credit cards. I use them for business, I use them personally. But I know what I am giving up by using them, and I can guarantee you knowledge of my physical address hardly figures into the real risk in any tangible way. You gave up everything when you handed them your credit card. I mean, seriously, how many people with your name live in your zip code? A dozen? Two dozen? Finding your address is a simple query to the internet if someone wants it. Tax records, property records it's all publicly accessible, and your first & last name is enough to get them. Nobody cares, because none of that is useful in a) using your credit card, b) forging your identity.
I'm with Mike Lynch. If you are concerned about the erosion of liberty, toss your DL over to the nice cashier and then write some letters to Congress about wiretap laws, credit bureau information abuse, government transparency, medical research budget cuts, or a host of other issues that will affect you and your kids lives.
My $0.02, YMMV.
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