PHARMACIST STEVE

while this person hits some of the highlights of what we could be dealing with in the future… there is a lot of “stuff” that is – and has been – going on that few people have a clue about.

I have often seen people discussing the good/bad/ugly about people getting “chipped” … like we do our pets.  Don’t look now… but.. if you have a smart phone… you have already been “chipped”…  Once our cell phone system transitioned to a digital system as opposed to the original analog system that the first cell phones were…  you can be “found” by the location of your smart cell phone.  While no one was paying attention, you can not longer easily take the battery off your phone – unlike you could with the older analog cell phones.   Does anyone really know that when your phone tells you that your battery is “dead” .. is it really did ? or does it have enough reserve power to ping a local cell phone tower every couple of minutes for how many hours or days ? You can prevent your cell phone from communicating with a cell phone tower by wrapping it in aluminum foil or put it in a lead lined closable bag.  Of course, the only good your phone is at this point is as a PAPER WEIGHT.

Police cars can now be equipped with license plate readers and automatically pull up the car’s registration and see if there is any outstanding warrants against the car and/or the owner of the car. The experts who deal with such cases in Columbia based DUI attorneys can be of legal help.

Suppose this data from the license plate could pull up a report from the state’s PDMP database..  what this person described is a unwarranted stop/search/arrest.. without probably cause… because the person in the car or who owns the car has had prescriptions filled for controlled substances.   Doesn’t this sound like what happens to prescribers… their practice is raid, they are arrested and their assets are confiscated and they are jailed… often with no charges being filed or charges based on “fabricated facts”

If you were paying attention, about 20 yrs ago a number of retailers started providing “frequent buyers discount cards”..  GUESS WHAT ?… another friggin database… they raised their prices and then give you a “discount” by showing your discount card.. also  abt the same time charge cards started giving various “rebates” by using their cards… some gave airline miles, some give COLD HARD CASH… today it is not all that hard to get upward of a 5% rebates.

What if that cop car .. license plate reader… can access databases that could show that the car’s owner had recently purchased some alcohol products either from the retailers discount program or the credit card rebate program.  Alcohol is a DRUG and it is like a “Controlled Substance”… the number of retailers and the specific type of retailers that can sell specific types of alcoholic products.

The list of possible businesses that could benefit from these databases… is virtually endless… once law enforcement gets access to these databases… who knows who the data is shared with.

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