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by joezydeco 4570 days ago
And this has never happened in small towns where merchants know everyone's business and gossip. There's always a backchannel of data when you are out in public.

The pregnant teenager outlier certainly made for an interesting and headline-worthy story. Hopefully future big data projects like this put a bit more thought into the human side of the equation, but never count on it I suppose.