STOCK MARKET WATCH -- Friday, 21 June 2013

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22. Do You Have ANY IDEA How Widespread Government Spying Really Is?

Pretty good, but long, article, lots of details, maps of new U.S. surveillance drone locations, etc.

The link about billboards that look back at you was interesting...

At The Big Picture, Here

Also, private industry is putting the government folks to shame, and without warrants. Most people don't realize, I think, that THEY are the product. More specifically their habits and behaviours, where they go, who they call, what and when they buy etc. Facebook, (which, it is suggested, may become the next company to provide credit scores, based on the datafication of the information they are gathering),Ttwitter, your cell phone data - lots of companies out there are amassing nearly incomprehensible amounts of data designed to, mostly, take more money out of your pocket. One part of the whole is the mining of data for correlations that no one has found yet. For example, a company that can predict health issues, such as heart attacks or other stress-related issues as accurately as a blood test, and a whole lot cheaper. People's position in car seats are being measured, and that data is being used to develop anti-theft technology, as they identify who is sitting in the seat based on posture, the way you hold your body, etc.

There's a lot more, but it's a fairly quick read, in a book called "Big Data", the authors are Viktor Mayer-Schonberger and Kenneth
Cukier. I got it at the library.

Wish it would quit raining. My garlic doesn't need any more water...