Ordering a pizza in 2012....
 

Received this in an e-mail earlier....

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Humour—it'll always fill the holes in a crappy argument...

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Pizza Palace will have access to my medical files?!?! :freakout:

And they co-operate with the airlines...? And a publishing house? And a credit card company!?

Sounds less like socialism and more like a cartel.

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Faxism?

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Good one. Or maybe Phonism? Not as catchy, though.

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I know it's a joke and it's purpose is to scare people with misinformation.

But, I bet you that there are advertising execs, corporate lawyers and CEOs out there who saw that and thought that it's not a half bad idea.

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There have been talks about that stuff for ages. Like store cards: what is preventing the stores, which potentially know what you bought if you used a card, from telling the insurance agencies exactly how many beers and doughnuts you buy per month?

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Mostly because it is a nontrivial task to match different records up without a single ID number across multiple records. That's the reason why agencies aren't supposed to use your SSN to identify you unless necessary. An SSN on every record would make it a cinch to tie all sorts of different information together for a single person.

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But that's just what makes the video too extreme to even be funny. Why the hell would the pizza place have your SSN?

Do people seriously think that the government would run their health insurance thing the way Big Corporations do?

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Hey...Brits are already experimenting with checking in on the kids with in-home camera monitors. I see no reason why this couldn't be a reality soon.

Given that we, as a wider community, have tended to sit on our hands when our civil rights have been threatened, particularly in the past ten years...hoping to secure more security in the bargain, I assume...I would not be surprised if we allowed something all too close to come to fruition. I suspect that this will rebound upon us in some very unsavory effects, and I think that these ideas are amongst them.