Walmart is unashamedly reporting that it is observing how customers' use of prescription drugs affect how much they eat, as tracked by how much food they buy on the store

The U.S. needs real #privacy laws

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@eob

How exactly do you correlate amount bought and amount eaten, what happens if I buy food and buy extra food to help out a neighbour who can't get out for example. ?

@zleap @eob there are statistical techniques and other metrics to compensate. They can usually tell how many individuals, gender and age are in your household from the items you buy. Data mining is scary because of how predictable people are.

@MaybeMyMonkeys @eob

Yeah good point, and they can even tell when you have used your car or even opened the door apparently

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