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I wonder how Hitlery would use this? Rhetorical question.

It's rhetorical but it's important! I've been working with databases for 10 years now, and while I'm doing anything that deals with information on people, being that I've kept up on things, I'm fully aware of what they can be used for.

To take the grocery store as an example - there are companies that have enormous amounts of data on people's shopping habits - those little "discount" cards or "reward" cards that grocery chains have - they track everything you buy, and they know exactly what they should put on sale in a given area, and they know exactly how to target you and your neighborhood in order to produce a sale. Most are moving to a point where the coupons you get on the back of your receipt are targeted towards you - as soon as you swipe that card, or the system determines who are you (credit card, etc.), it queues up coupons and discounts based on your individual shopping habits.

That's just grocery stores.

Say a Maryland or Illinois or NYC wanted to know who all had guns in a given area - it would be so damn easy for them to figure it out. Criteria such as "pays dues to the NRA or other similar organizations", "subscribes to Guns & Ammmo", "bought ammunition on these dates at these stores", turned in such-and-such hunting tags or bought a hunting license, etc., etc. They would have that data within hours.

The government is not making this for only a small number of people to have access to - it would not be useful otherwise.

Just assume that your city, county, state, etc., will have access to this info if they want it - hell, they'll be feeding into the system.