[eitland]

> But why do you think Google goes to a great length to track you all over the web? They literally have thousands of engineers doing just that.

As far as I understand even as the British empire became smaller the number of people employed to oversee the colonies went up.

Bureacracy will find a way to generate work for itself and it would be a shame to have all those data scientist wasting their time on fixing actual problems instead of making reports about how smart the current system is ;-)