Just a scenario.
Lets say Martin you are looking at stuff online that you shouldn't...serious stuff...its all being tracked and logged somewhere on a database.
Over time these Databases become more and more interlinked, the advertising databases have the largest datasets...so Governments think its a good resource on people?
Nefarious players in Government and elsewhere get access to this data, whether by deliberate act or (mostly the case) human error and this information is sold on to Health insurance Companies...security services...whatever.
Your refused credit, health insurance and are put on some watch-list your unaware of.
These things start slow...deliberately so.
Over time with constant exposure peoples shock gets less and less, people more and more apathetic to it.
Candy Crush anyone?
The new Normal sets in...and it's too late.
Originally Posted by
Macca
Have you got some examples of this?
Don't get me wrong I am not in favour of some sort of big brother state but I'm struggling to reconcile what I perceive as the reality of data mining with the 'we're all doomed' narrative.
In short, I don't really see how the information they are able to collect about me can be used to compromise me.
Is it not the case that the people making the money out of the data mining are simply talking up its relevance for the benefit of their punters?
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