Alexa, are you connected to the CIA?

PyrateSilly wrote:
It's not the CIA or NSA that concerns me with collecting data. It's all the marketing firms that have their fingers in everything and collecting way more data to use. How many social sites are most people on? How many have apps on their phones to get discounts or to check-in at businesses to get discounts? Camera's every where, which everyone hates and don't want until a tragedy happens and then people like all the camera's tracking the bad guy(s). Again it's not the NSA or the CIA that alarms me so much, it's all the other's that track waayyyy more things.

Yet, no matter how many times I ask, no one can tell me what they are going to do with all this nefarious data except try and sell things to me. I seriously doubt there is any upside to anyone getting a video of me picking my nose or scratching my arse. Does knowing I like pepperoni on my pizza give the NSA the information it needs to connect me to a vast network of foreign operatives intent on destroying the American way of life? Does the CIA's knowledge of which social sites I post pictures of my dog on really help them bring in a new world order? Is the only thing blocking Dr. Evil from taking over the world a lack of knowledge of how I plan on spending my vacation? I'll start worrying about all this data collection when there is a sudden shortage of tinfoil to make hats out of.