Privacy nothing (that’s already gone) - this is an unbelievable takeover of an information source.
This is VERY bad, folks. This is bad in groundbreaking ways. "Big Data" is now a thing and our government leads the globe in its implementation and mining.
Think about this: when the NSA thing broke by Snowden a few months ago, there was little overwhelming dissent. Details about WHO they were tracking/data mining, the American people, is against the law and not the purpose of the Patriot Act. People seemed disinterested.
Then details about WHAT they were tracking came out: phone calls, emails, IMs, Facebook chats, Skype calls. Still nothing.
Then details about HOW they were tracking came out: your very own phone, unsecured browsers, emailed malware/spyware. Still not a peep.
There's a completely underwhelming response to all of this, and guess what? The lack of armed rebellion in the streets, calling for mass resignations of government officials, or even pitchfork and torch wielding masses converging on the NSA Utah data center are proving to the government, "Well, looks like they don't care. Let's keep ratcheting it up!"
NOW, they are making illegal demands on private businesses to install port sniffing software at the switch level and force providers like iTunes to forward all interactions with the service to the Feds. This is as warrantless as warrantless wiretapping gets, but nothing. Not a peep from anyone. Not a single person can do or say ANYTHING anymore.
The Federal government is going to mandate all private transactions and business are routed through them for databases on everyone. Your entire life, from birth to death, will be cataloged. Before long sociopathy, drug use, psychopathy, lack of intelligence will all be "predicted" through the use of behavioral algorithms. You'll be arrested for merely existing because you'll be presupposed to be thinking about possibly committing a crime, maybe.
If you plan to run for public office, government officials will "accidentally" leak information to the press on rivals. The government has a monopoly on data, that means the government can control who is among them. The period of the citizen legislator, the representative, is dead. Long live the empire of data. Long live Barack Hussein Obama, the Marxist Faggot-in-Chief.
This is bad but there’s a part of me that takes some pleasure in watching these liberal internet billionaires who got in bed with the DNC dogs discover just how bad the fleas can be.