On 20/09/2018 18:42, Java Jive wrote:

Alternatively, a little longer ago she was a guest panelist on The
Infinite Monkey Cage, where she expounded on this story in greater
detail, including that it was an American store called 'Target' and that
in 2012 a father of a teenage daughter had actually gone to his local
store in Minneapolis to complain about her being sent these coupons as
it seemed to be 'normalising' teenage pregnancy, but by the time the
store rang him at home to apologise, his daughter had admitted to him
that she was indeed pregnant.

https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b0b9wbf8Â*Â* 7:38 minutes in

When I wrote the above I'd only re-listened to the program as far as
finding that particular clip, which on first hearing had been been
emotionally striking enough for me to remember something about it, but,
having since re-listened to the entire program, there's actually a
better, but less emotional and therefore I had less reason to remember
it, example later on, beginning at 22:06, which describes how data from
*different* sources was combined in a similarly revealing way ...

Apparently a database of New York taxi cab data was made available to
those who had a legitimate reason to access it, but it was
insufficiently well encrypted, and someone broke the encryption and
published the data online - it contained details of every cab ride
made over a given period: cab number, starting point, destination, fare
paid, etc, even tip received. A journalist then realised that he could
search paparazzi photographs of celebs getting into cabs, identify the
cab, and then search the database for the ride data, and as a result
published a list of the different tips given by celebs to cab drivers,
and the programme also mentioned something about where they lived being
revealed!

Now, I'm not particularly sorry for the celebs in question, or most
others for that matter, but the point is that if that sort of thing can
happen to them, it can happen to private individuals as well - think
stalkers, or troublesome gangs of local youths seeking revenge on
someone who they suspect of reporting their activities to the police,
etc, etc.