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Re: Safeway Shopper Card Leads to Arson Arrest

AES (siegman@stanford.edu)
Mon, 31 Jan 2005 10:43:49 -0800

In article <telecom24.46.13@telecom-digest.org>, DevilsPGD
<ihatespam@crazyhat.net> wrote:

> In message <telecom24.45.14@telecom-digest.org> -mhd
> <not_real@invalid.com> wrote:

>> Monty Solomon <monty@roscom.com> wrote:

>>> by Richard M. Smith

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>>> http://www.computerbytesman.com/privacy/safewaycard.htm

>> You left out the most important part. The charge was bogus and he was
>> released after the real arsonist admitted to it.

> The most important part is that the charge was bogus, not that he was
> released or anything about the real arsonist admitting to it.

> I'd be interested in knowing whether or not the accused (the owner of
> the card) actually purchased the products, and whether or not his card
> was used or if he just provided a phone number.

In any event there are one hell of a lot of important lessons in this
whole story, about the use of computers, about computerized information
gathering, about personal identification systems, about police
procedures, about privacy concerns, and so on.

I sure hope comp.risks picks up on it, and even more that it becomes
an object lesson studied and learned by anyone involved in any of
those areas.

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