>Everyone is thinking, "just let them take the photo" or "the clerk is just doing their job".
Maybe, or maybe you made them second guess their own personal policy of what they are comfortable sharing. So long as you are confident I don't think a reasonable person would look down on you for protecting your privacy. I usually just say something like "I don't do that" when asked to share email/phone/zip with stores, never had a clerk get weird about it.
I usually do that too. 99% not an issue. But as it gets more pervasive and they ask for more and more. I have encountered at least a dozen places that the clerks workflow can not proceed until I comply. So usually it's a "I don't do that" followed by "it's required" to which I reply "no it's not" and it's down hill from there. Sometimes they're smart enough to feed the machine dummy data and not argue with me. Usually it makes me mad so I don't exactly handle it with grace either (stubbornness I don't get rude or abusive)
Maybe, or maybe you made them second guess their own personal policy of what they are comfortable sharing. So long as you are confident I don't think a reasonable person would look down on you for protecting your privacy. I usually just say something like "I don't do that" when asked to share email/phone/zip with stores, never had a clerk get weird about it.