Zero Hedge
"Every move you make. Every click you take. Every game you play. Every place you stay. They’ll be watching you."
If the government's all-seeing eye was not worrying enough for the privacy-deprived American citizenry, 'profiling' has now gone mainstream as IDI, a year-old company in the so-called data-fusion business, is the first to centralize and weaponize all that information for its customers. As Bloomberg explains,
Chief Executive Officer Derek Dubner says the system isn’t waiting for requests from clients - it’s already built a profile on every American adult, including young people who wouldn’t be swept up in conventional databases, which only index transactions.
If the government's all-seeing eye was not worrying enough for the privacy-deprived American citizenry, 'profiling' has now gone mainstream as IDI, a year-old company in the so-called data-fusion business, is the first to centralize and weaponize all that information for its customers. As Bloomberg explains,
For more than a decade, professional snoops have been able to search troves of public and nonpublic records—known addresses, DMV records, photographs of a person’s car—and condense them into comprehensive reports costing as little as $10.The Boca Raton, Fla., company’s database service, idiCORE, combines public records with purchasing, demographic, and behavioral data... (Bloomberg continues)
Now they can combine that information with the kinds of things marketers know about you, such as which politicians you donate to, what you spend on groceries, and whether it’s weird that you ate in last night, to create a portrait of your life and predict your behavior.
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