Re:Serious (Score 2, Interesting)

This, I feel, is precisely why it should not be necessary to make a law forcing business into the practice of selling to anonymous individuals. At any rate, in my experience, most of the reason that companies need all that information is to comply with existing government regulations that they must collect that information, or obvious reasons that make collecting the information applicable to the product that is being sold (for example, so that they can send you bills for a service you are buying). If a company demands information that I do not wish to give, I generally go somewhere else. Furthermore, I am never comfortable with laws telling people who they must or must not do business with.