Some privacy experts say that giving out your ZIP code to stores might reveal more about you than you intend to reveal. I'm sure you've checked out at some discount or department store and were asked by the clerk for your ZIP code. No big deal...right?Hang-on naive citizen...big brother retail maggot wants to know more about you! By matching your name on a credit or debit card with the ZIP code, retailers can find out your address. With that much information what comes next?
Check you mail box, or better your email. Impossible? So how about NSA and your Verizon, ATT, Sprint, etc. phone use?
So zip it when asked for your ZIP! Read more at...
http://www.theblaze.com/stories/2013/03/20/heres-why-you-might-want-to-stop-giving-out-your-zip-code-to-stores/
...and even more at...
http://www.theblaze.com/stories/2013/06/24/heres-the-ugly-story-of-what-happened-to-one-woman-who-didnt-want-to-give-a-store-her-zip-code-and-why-you-probably-shouldnt/
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