I guess you missed all the stories about the nudge squads.
Such policies — which encourage behavior subtly rather than outright require it — have come to be known as “nudges,” after an influential 2008 book titled “Nudge” by former Obama regulatory czar Cass Sunstein
This NSA stuff is far superior to opinion polls. I wager all those 0bama e-mails asking for 2 or three dollars were in fact a phising type operation to feed metadata to the NSA
I read a little bit about those nudge squads. Creepy, to be sure. Laughable as well. One can always nudge back.