A supermarket club card is a new way for people to save money on items they buy. People used to cut out coupons to (S1) ______ money. Now they use a card that looks like a (S2) ______ card when they pay for items. Only people with cards can get the (S3) ______ price.
To get a card, people must give out their name, address, and other (S4) ______ information. Everything club card-users buy is (S5) ______ on a computer in a file with their name on it. In the coupon days, no one kept (S6) ______ of the things people bought. Now, computers ’allow huge (S7) ______ of information to be saved.
In order to save money with the cards, people could lose privacy. So far, the information, or data, is private. But that could change. There are many companies who might be interested in knowing what people buy. For instance, (S8) _______________________________________, _____________________________.
A California Senator, Debra Bowen, wants to make sure there are laws to protect data kept on computers. She says," (S9)________________________________.”
Stores that use club cards have promised to keep the information private. (S10) _______________________________. Some people say the information is worth as much as treasure. S10
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Some people are afraid the stores might change their minds i......