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by dr_faustus 3978 days ago
Apart from NSA et.al., there is huge commercial value in movement profiles:

- Visiting a physician a lot? You future health insurance might wanna know.

- Spend a lot of time in the red light district? That must be worth a couple of bucks to your employer who wants to get rid of you.

You might think that this is far fetched and right now, it still is. But 20 years ago, most people would have considered it very implausible and offensive that their private conversations (emails) or library searches (web searches) are sold to advertisers. Well, lets see what (some) people find acceptable 20 years from now.