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Article Excerpt
Speaking at a recent San Fernando Valley Bar Association Forum, Roger Louis Kohn told this story:
A customer shopping in the supermarket slipped and sued the grocery store, which in mm dug into its database, filled with details of shopping patterns gleaned from checkout data, and found the customer had bought alcohol in the past.
Kohn, who is chair of the Southern California Privacy Rights Committee of the American Civil Liberties Union, doesn't use a supermarket membership club card, but recently when he was making a purchase offered at discount to club members, the customer in line behind him graciously offered hers up and the cashier swiped it before he could protest.
"Now I may be in trouble because she's a drunk," Kohn told the audience for the forum.
He was only half-joking.
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