Why Do They Want My Phone Number?
On the checkout line this holiday season, make sure you have everything on your gift list, your cash or credit card ready -- and, oh yeah, get set for one more thing.
"Can I have your phone number, please?"
"I hate that," said Larry Ponemon, a former corporate auditor who founded the Ponemon Institute, a Michigan-based think tank that studies privacy, data protection and information-security policy.
Hate it or not, more stores are asking for phone numbers or other personal information, and that has some privacy experts concerned.
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