“Facebook is probably sharing their data mining with the white house.”
You can guarantee that, along with Google also.
That means I forgot to list browser search data, which could also be part of their analysis and that makes it all even more scary on what their analysis can provide.
Most people do not know this, but Google has created their own database platform called Hadoop. It is being positioned as an open source database that companies use for their analytics - hundreds of software companies and clients are building analytics solutions on top of the platform, very similar to Salesforce.com has done. I am 99% certain that I read somewhere that the Obama campaign is using Hadoop as their database and analytics platform.
This is a whole new level of big brother that no one could have imagined 10 years ago, much less when Orwell wrote 1984.