"simon" wrote in message
...


One of the things that scare me about these cards is the way they can
place
you near a scene of a crime, so if you have a record anyway, you are
likely
to raise alarm bells even if you had nothing to do with it.

Plus, the ramifications of other people potentially being able to
purchase
a
record of my movements...no thanks!

If you've already got a monthly paper travelcard LUL already have this
data.
The Oystercard just adds bus journeys to the data they could collect
about
you.


Were the ticket machines definitely able to hold data from paper
travelcards
?

I should have added the word *potentially*. As a paper ticket has a ID
number just like an Oystercard, it would be fairly trivial to log everything
in a database and cross-reference it with the customer records.