[cuban leaf]

What a lot of folks don’t realize is that they are building a “virtual” database on themselves right NOW. Emails, phone text, facebook, etc. Every day this database gets bigger and more robust with information. It just sits there waiting. Waiting for the day someone is motivated to create a complete background check on you.

Phone companies are required to save data for seven years. Once the government gets their hooks in it, they can keep it indefinitely. They can then run all sorts of data mining and profiling information against it to hone the accuracy of their predictions until, ultimately, they have a need to create a “pre-crime” department and laws for it to enforce.

If the Lord waits, I give it 40 years at the outside.

[cuban leaf]

data mining and profiling information = data mining and profiling PROGRAMS

And the sophisication of such software is improving at ever increasing rates of speed.

[brityank]

What a lot of folks don’t realize is that they are building a “virtual” database on themselves right NOW. Emails, phone text, facebook, etc. Every day this database gets bigger and more robust with information. It just sits there waiting. Waiting for the day someone is motivated to create a complete background check on you.

Go check the Zeit.de link in my #9 above - it will make a believer out of you!