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Originally Posted by kennyc
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I think that's very much on topic, because many the same considerations apply. A company collates this information (whether it's relationships or bank balances) and uses it for some seemingly innocuous, or even apparently beneficial, purpose. What many people fail to recognise is that in doing this they are disseminating the information further and further, and making it available for purposes we never envisaged when we gave that information originally.
And it's not going to stop. The databases are going to get bigger, the processors are going to get faster, and the software is going to get smarter, and we're all going to support it because we want all the conveniences this gives us. ... I'd feel a lot more comfortable about this if I felt that more people really understood what is going on, what we're getting ourselves into, but that's not going to happen either.