On Mon, 26 Apr 2004, John Rodgers wrote: > I guess I suffer from "Big Brother" and "1984" paranoia. And the the > thing that really gets me lately is the apparent step-up in the use of > digitizing signature pads. I know all about the increased efficiencies > and all that jazz, and it is supplosed to be benign statistics info > gathering, but "What If??" What if but if sojmeone misuses the info?? There's a lot of stuff I worry about too, but I don't really see that the electronic signature pads are any worse than the paper signature receipts. (Well, except that my signature ends up totally unrecognizable when I sign on one of those digital pads, for some reason.)
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