CDC uses shopper-card data to trace salmonella

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Longtime shopper-card critic Katherine Albrecht, director of a group

called Consumers Against Supermarket Privacy Invasion and Numbering, said

she worries that the practice could lead to a switch from a voluntary

system to mandatory use of such cards.

" That sends chills down my spine, " she said. ...

J. Kathryn MacDonald, an epidemiologist with the Washington state Health

Department who worked on the salmonella outbreak, such some advocates'

privacy fears are unfounded.

" This is not being used as a tool for open-ended trawling through

many records hoping to find something, " MacDonald said. " The

records are treated with the same level of confidentiality as would

medical records. "

 

 

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