[mackrevinack]

its a good analogy that's useful for a lot of things. if someone was standing across the road from your house with a telescope, writing down every tv show or movie you watched, i think most people would be very angry about that. but when people hear they are being profiled online in the same way they are not bothered at all.

it doesn't help that most things online are very abstract, with terms like 'the cloud' making things even harder to understand, which in reality is just someone else's computer