"jr" <cre### [at] gmailcom> wrote:

> the point is that you do not have to "indulge", it is all taken care of, for
> your .. convenience, of course.

And through the unread all-encompassing EULA.


https://www.investopedia.com/articles/insights/090716/7-ways-amazon-uses-big-data-stalk-you-amzn.asp
https://www.theloop.ca/tech-companies-stealing-data-exactly/
https://www.nbcnews.com/tech/tech-news/google-sells-future-powered-your-personal-data-n870501

And it's not just online:
https://www.amazon.com/Spychips-Major-Corporations-Government-Purchase/dp/0452287669
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mrITx7_tTT0     (short)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CFcPdJ12bbs     (long)

http://techrights.org/2019/06/30/how-free-libre-software-comes-under-attack/

This is of course just the very tip of the iceberg.
Look at what China is doing with facial recognition and "social credit".

It's not just any one single thing.  It's the totality of the data collection
and correlation and cross-referencing, and machine learning and
interpolation.....
The sheer scale and scope and speed of which people could have hardly ever
imagined, and still have no idea the extent to which what has already been
collected can be applied to.


1984 was supposed to be a warning, not an instruction manual.

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