Re: re signature pads

[Renegade <renegade@texoma.net>]

>> Does anyone have any information regarding the legality of those
>> annoying signature pads used by CompUSA, Sears and a million other
>> retail stores?  It seems to me that recording signatures and compiling
>> a database of them is a major civil liberties violation.  Comments?

>at officemax (or depot...i forget), I just take the paper copy off of the
>pad and sign it on the counter and then give it back to them.  viola, no
>digital signature on file.  This generally annoys them, but they accept it
>as valid anyway. =)

The receipts of people who do that are put in a special box where they are
marked for manual scanning, and then linked with survellience footage of
their face and vehicle ID.
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