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>The lower income market is intensely profitable, mostly due to the limitation of choice a disenfranchised person has.

From what I've seen, this has actually started to attract foreign owned corporations in some industries like food (snacks in particular), I'm sure that's not the only industry.

>It does seem like the logical progression for Google and friends. What will be interesting is how such invasive monitoring will be pitched as innocuous. People seem to be a-okay with corporations mining their data, though.

Agreed. From someone trying to get into the data mining space, I feel like the "positive" direction to go in is to basically admitting that there is no putting the lid back onto this box (simply too valuable to many services and provides utility for people can't be botherd to learn more outside of how to press buttons) and trying to make data more valuable to people on an individual level. (instead of just for sigint agencies and their outsourced private equity owners portfolio companies like BAH).