Posted on 06/14/2022 10:30:18 AM PDT by EBH
Statistics Norway wants to receive several million daily receipts from food stores, signalling a new era in state data collection. Privacy advocates and the supermarkets themselves are unhappy.
People living in Norway are used to big government. But the latest news coming out of Oslo is a surprising new step down the road of data collection that not everyone is happy with.
Statistics Norway (SSB) is the state-owned entity responsible for collecting, producing and communicating statistics related to the economy, population and society at national, regional and local levels.
Because everything about an individual living in Norway is linked to their fødselnummer (birth number), SSB already knows where you live, what you earn and what's on your criminal record.
However, according to a report by NRK, they now want to know where you shop, and what you buy.
Data collection from supermarket transactions SSB has ordered Norway's major supermarket chains NorgesGruppen, Coop, Bunnpris and Rema 1000 to share all their receipt data with the agency. Nets, the payment processor that is responsible for 80% of transactions, will also need to provide data.
“A link between a payment transaction made with a debit card and a grocery receipt enables SSB to link a payment transaction and receipt for more than 70% of grocery purchases,” SSB said in an assessment.
Such a collection will signal a new era for SSB, as the agency now seeks to collect data from private companies and not just public registers. Given the rise in identity theft in Norway, it's no surprise that some people have concerns with the move for increased data collection.
Why is SSB doing this? SSB claims they want a less time-consuming way of collecting and analysing household consumption statistics in order to inform tax policy, social assistance and child allowance.
In 2012, thousands of Norwegian households wrote down what they bought in a paper booklet. SSB says the survey was time-consuming and error-prone. So back in 2013, discussions began on whether they could take advantage of digital tracks already left by customers.
SSB is adamant that they are only concerned with statistics at a group level: “When the purchases are linked to a household, it will be possible in the consumption statistics to analyze socio-economic and regional differences in consumption, and link it to variables such as income, education and place of residence.”
More data collection than ever before NTNU researcher Lisa Reutter is among those concerned with the trend of increased state data collection. She researches how the public sector is being digitised and is using more and more data.
“When we increase the public administration's ability to classify, predict and control citizens' behaviour using large amounts of digital data, the balance of power between citizen and state is shifted,” she said.
NorgesGruppen to appeal Both privacy advocates and the retail industry themselves are unhappy with the proposal.
Coop spokesperson Harald Kristiansen said that while Coop is positive that SSB has a basis for making good statistics, the company will nevertheless consider appealing the order.
Payment processor Nets said they share concern “about the collection and compilation of data that may be problematic and intrusive for the individual citizen.”
Data collection in supermarkets is nothing new Of course, it's only fair to point out that many of us already hand over all our purchase data to the supermarkets themselves in the form of loyalty programs.
While we get a discount, the supermarkets get access to valuable information about individual purchasing habits and group-level purchasing patterns.
However, the big difference between these loyalty programs and the SSB proposal is that supermarket loyalty programs are optional.
“Yes, yes, the unlimited power!” always ends in teeny living space ... even if it’s the outer darkness / lake of fire and not a lamp.
How else is the government supposed to know when the nation is running low on Lutefisk?
Government enforced bacon rationing.
“When we increase the public administration’s ability to classify, predict and control citizens’ behaviour using large amounts of digital data, the balance of power between citizen and state is shifted,”
Key word.....CONTROL
You’ve Exceeded Your limit of R+R for the week !
Please Report Downtown.
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“Rice and Rat”
You need more insect in your diet.
MADAM. YOU CANNOT BUY THAT BOX OF GRAHAM CRACKERS. YOUR CARB LIMIT WAS REACHED TUESDAY.
Eat your damned lutefisk or we’ll cut off your food stamps
Surveillance of the subject who believes himself a citizen.
. “Rice and Rat”
Sir, that 12% deduction from your allotment was for reparations to Black people.
So they can adjust your gov’t benefits and pension based on what you buy. Fruit and Vegas - full pay. Cigs and beer - sorry, you’re on your own.
Why?
The best of questions.
(Norway to Track All Supermarket Purchases)
The Mark of the Beast will come, my friends. Every day, it seems, there’s more evidence that it’s coming.
You can count on it. No, it won’t happen tomorrow. Your purchases will all be tracked. There will be no place to hide from the 4th beast of Daniel 7:23.
Revelation 13:16-18
King James Version
16 And he causeth all, both small and great, rich and poor, free and bond, to receive a mark in their right hand, or in their foreheads:
17 And that no man might buy or sell, save he that had the mark, or the name of the beast, or the number of his name.
18 Here is wisdom. Let him that hath understanding count the number of the beast: for it is the number of a man; and his number is Six hundred threescore and six.
https://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=Revelation%2013%3A16-18&version=KJV
Tell everyone you know. Spread the Word of the Lord far and wide, while it is still the day and we may work the fields.
John 3:17-18
King James Version
17 For God sent not his Son into the world to condemn the world; but that the world through him might be saved.
18 He that believeth on him is not condemned: but he that believeth not is condemned already, because he hath not believed in the name of the only begotten Son of God.
https://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=John%203%3A17-18&version=KJV
(Why?
The best of questions.)
Control
why? To tax their consumption of carbon causing foods-
They have not learned from the death of Olaf Palme.
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