RedRocket204 wrote:
My comment was primarily sarcasm... except for the part about the advertising. Unless you're doing crime, I seriously doubt there is much interest in the rest of your lives... again, except for the advertising piece.
But isn't that enough?
And isn't the fact that if they decide you are of interest sometime in the future that they can go back and pull years of information on you, a bit extreme?
Think back to the holocaust or the inquisition, etc. How many more people could have been killed if they could have tracked information on boring people?
How many more hidden Jews would have been found and murdered if businesses were electronically tracking purchases over 20+ years and the Nazi government could access it?
How many more people would have been tortured and killed during the inquisition because their electronic information showed a purchase of a "devil worshipping" item or linked them to an internet forum where a known devil worshipper had been posting?
The problem is that "boring" and "uninteresting" is extremely subjective. Just because I am law abiding and boring today, doesn't guarantee I'll be considered law abiding and boring tomorrow.
And we can't guarantee that such horrors like the holocaust won't happen again.
I prefer to fight against such collections of information because it can be used for wrong too easily.
