I've seen this happen with cafe/food truck ipad point-of-sale systems (square, paypal, etc.). They swipe my credit card and up pops up a "would you like a receipt emailed to xxx@whatever.com" box.
My first reaction is always "I never told you a goddamn thing about my email. How'd you get it from swiping my credit card?"
Pretty sure stripe/square/paypal don't share the card's email with the merchants (yet), but even so, it's a bit disconcerting to see the food truck guy "has" my email without me ever giving it out.
Consumer databases are a huge business. It's election day today... think it's an accident that the campaign mailers you got match your census block's demographic profiles? http://www.esri.com/data/esri_data/ziptapestry Normally only the credit card companies were privvy to this data collection. It would be poor business decisions if selling these profiles was not part of stripe and square's business projections.
My first reaction is always "I never told you a goddamn thing about my email. How'd you get it from swiping my credit card?"
Pretty sure stripe/square/paypal don't share the card's email with the merchants (yet), but even so, it's a bit disconcerting to see the food truck guy "has" my email without me ever giving it out.
Consumer databases are a huge business. It's election day today... think it's an accident that the campaign mailers you got match your census block's demographic profiles? http://www.esri.com/data/esri_data/ziptapestry Normally only the credit card companies were privvy to this data collection. It would be poor business decisions if selling these profiles was not part of stripe and square's business projections.