[crb002]

Trying to get my credit union to allow users to opt in to sell bulk annon checking account transactions to a hedge fund. Having that much point of sale data would be huge.

[ponker]

uh no, please don't do that. Individual decisions that seem harmless can be incredibly destructive in the aggregate, and this is one of them.

[tmoaad]

For those that need an example, a great reminder is the target data mining story at https://www.forbes.com/sites/kashmirhill/2012/02/16/how-targ...

[cbozeman]

I'm not saying you're wrong, but I am curious what negative trends you believe will emerge from someone actioning this data.

[computerphage]

Would you mind elaborating on the sorts of harms you're thinking of?