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There's going to come a point, though, where the amount of data collected outweighs its usefulness. Right now the companies and alphabet agencies are in the first flush of lust with all the data that's out there for the taking. Sooner or later, though, they're going to realize that there's much more chaff than wheat in all that data they've got stored, and they can cross-file and cross-check it all they want, but its never going to reveal our inner selves to them. All they are going to get are the surface details, that we probably would have revealed anyway, if only asked.
I understand the privacy issues and agree with them, but I also realize that today's generations don't have the same concept of personal privacy inculcated the way mine did, and that the generation that posts its ongoing life stories on Facebook and Twitter is simply not going to feel the same horror about "everyone knowing their business".
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