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by Chronic9q 3571 days ago
Isn't that what startups do these days? Collect every piece of damn information from each user visiting their site? Log when they hover over a link and all?
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Morals aside, startups are after typical behavior. When you do analytics, you normally want to discover things something between 5% to 90% of your users. Most companies even have problem for getting into that 5% limit because it is too small.

Terrorists are a few hundred, spread through the billions of people. Or, on the same kind of numbers, around 0.0000001% of the people the NSA spies on.