The more we allow commercial data mining, the more opportunities arise for identity theft.
How do I know that the person asking me for personal information isn't going to transfer it to a private database so he/she can assume my identity and destroy my credit?
Now the airlines, with the blessings of the U.S. government, want to do the same thing with a new program they will institute soon called CAPPS II. How do I know that the friendly airline employee behind the counter won't take the information which CAPPS II data mined on me and use it for selfish gain? After this program is instituted, I intend to boycott the airline industry until it is stopped.
By the way, I run my AdAware 6 daily. It's amazing how many data miners are slyly installed on my computer witholut my knowledge every day, usually through pop-up ads. I purge my computer of the data miners nightly.
I am strongly opposed to invasions of privacy in any form. I am a pretty public person, but there is some information which no one has the right to ask me, unless I know specifically what it is being used for.