[anigbrowl]

That's how any sort of metric works - your credit score, your Acxiom consumer category score, whatever metrics Facebook and Google use to score user engagement.

This is just how life is when databases are ubiquitous. After I bought a house and my name began appearing in property tax databases I started getting lots of (paper-based) commercial spam for things homeowners are more likely to buy, like different sorts of insurance, refinancing, satellite TV service yadda yadda.

When it emerged after 9-11 that various government agencies had failed to 'join the dots' by not sharing intelligence information effectively, there was a lot of public support for better-coordinated and more proactive intelligence gather, notwithstanding warnings about the risk to civil liberties. So collectively we got what we asked for. The lack of public outrage or mass demonstrations against the NSA strongly suggests that a large majority are OK with this state of affairs, especially since they're used to data collection in a commercial context.

[pessimizer]

I think people are too busy, too desperate, and too badly educated to do anything about it. Most people were only being kept solvent by credit cards, borrowing against the equity in their houses, and taking massive loans for major purchases - and when credit got tight, people started setting up tents on Wall Street. The next crash is going to be a terrifying experience.

A little bit of war, however, will probably dull any of that.

[cargo54]

This is the agenda that justifies all this: http://100777.com/nwo/barbarians and was planned before internet was mainstream. This is information released in 1989. Read and judge for yourself

[paletoy]

And people don't really believe that protest(at least a peaceful one) can create a meaningful change. and judging how things are going lately ,they might be right. Case in point: obama care.

[fulafel]

The credit and consumer category scores are legal in the us because of non existing privacy legislation. No such things eg in the EU. Ubiquitous invasive databases aren't fate.