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Originally Posted by Bobblehead
Well, privacy laws (Alberta has one of the strictest) say that you cannot collect and maintain data outside of your business. This is supposed to prevent companies from selling their customer lists to telemarketers. In this case I seem to recall that since 99+% of customers aren't ever going to be a problem it was illegal to store personal information (drivers license #, DOB, etc.) If the data was ever stolen or abused, people could sue Penny Lane for big $.
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The problem is what if that theft of identity keeps me from buying a house? Or ends up selling my current house from underneath me?
Then it becomes a question of which bar let your info leak out?
The more I think about it; the more I realize it was a bad idea.