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Originally Posted by Yeledaf
Don't kid yourself, Hogie. Safeway and Albertson's know more about you than you would dream possible. As do Amazon, Expedia, and Google.
What used to be called fascism has become, thanks to Progress, "data mining." And we're all part of the mother lode.
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Yeah, but instead of detaining me in a dark room and torturing me to get information out of me Amazon.com just suggests a book that I'd like based on my tastes in other books, movies and music. Hmm, yeah, those are the same.
It's one thing to be spied on by a retailer trying to better serve me as a customer, it's a whole different thing to be spied on by the government.
The PATRIOT ACT (capitalized because it's not a word, but an Acronym designed to trick stupid people into supporting it) was/is the single biggest infringement on our civil rights in American history.