Originally Posted by
stifle
For the rest: isn't life a bit too short to get hot under the collar about boarding pass scans? The retailer is still bound by the Data Protection Act not to use the data for inappropriate purposes, and it doesn't exactly take that long. Training the cashiers to ask "do you intend to export the purchase", "are you on a non-EU flight", etc. would take far longer and also result in confusion and delays for passengers who don't speak much/any English.
Absolutely. Your boarding pass it scanned repeatedly by various agencies, while far more sensitive data ping pongs around world-wide systems when you fly.
Attempting to limit a retailer's access to your flight number, and the ability to record this limited data with your purchase, seems a pretty pointless exercise in bloody-mindedness. But each to his own
