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Wallander was good too. It is interesting how the internet/netflix systems direct you to other stuff.

Also “interesting” on how one search on the internet for something will fill your email with spam.

I had a friend that must have had his cell phone listening. He was talking with a neighbor about his neighbor’s lawn mower. “Yeah - this is nice! Maybe I should get something like this.”

Later on that day on his computer his emails and google were filled with lawn mower ads. Except he had never searched on lawn mowers before. The first time he had ever shown an interest was a few minutes before with his neighbor!

There is a huge huge market for your personal data. It’s collected and analyzed (Who do you think has paid for the new A.I. technology explosion in machine learning!) every time you get on the Internet, use you cell phone, drive your car, tweet, text, etc. your sending out “data” on yourself.

You would not believe how much is collected. It dwarves government collection. Actually its a waste for money for government to collect. They could just be another customer and buy it. I’ve attended several Machine\Deep Learning conferences and heard talks on this and what these “marketing data collectors” want to do is. A big industry driver is the insurance industry mostly car but soon to be property & health. They’ll have the data for your claim report before the cop finishes writing the ticket or the embers of your house cool from your house fire. The health insurance industry wants to use the data\analysis to better assess you as a health risk.

It’s an obvious fact the younger public doesn’t care a squat about privacy. They claim they do if you ask them. However just look at their behavior. The coming Internet-of-Things where every household appliance is attached to the Internet and data collected on will make it even worse.