Gov’t Increasingly Getting Your Private Info From Internet Companies
- Posted on October 3, 2011 at 2:59pm by
Liz Klimas
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You may know your private information is being collected by sites like Facebook, Twitter, Google and more — often you’re giving it license to collect it. But what you may not know is that this information, which has really only become as available and easy to obtain by the government in the last couple decades, is being requested more and more.
And when sites are asked for information from the government or law enforcement, Reuters reports, they essentially have one choice: give it up.
Last week, The Blaze reported Facebook, Twitter and Google are in the midst of figuring out their policies regarding user information and protecting freedom of speech. While Reuters recently interviewed a Web expert detailing the very reason sites like these are developing standards for how and when they’ll share information:
“When the possibility exists for information to be obtained that wasn’t possible before, it’s entirely understandable that law enforcement is interested,” Google’s Chief Internet Evangelist Vint Cerf told Reuters in an interview.
“Then the issue would be, what’s the right policy? And that, or course, engenders a lot of debate,” said Cerf, who is recognized as one of the “fathers of the Internet” for his early work in areas including communications protocols and email.
Vint Cerf
Interestingly, the administrative cost for finding and providing this information when requested, Reuters continues, is getting less and less. Google charges $25, Yahoo $20 and Microsoft and Facebook hand it over for free.
Reuters also reports that some governments are even requiring Internet companies to “collect more data and keep it for longer.” Katarzyna Szymielewicz, executive director of Poland’s Panoptykon Foundation, said that the country has a “very controversial data retention regime” requiring data storage for two years.
Online privacy researcher Christopher Soghoian said that Internet companies and telecoms in the United States probably receive 300,000 requests from law enforcement each year.
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Comments (92)
KeenEye
Posted on October 3, 2011 at 6:18pmDropped Facebook on friday, experiencing some withdrawl symptoms but will make it through. I was shocked when I realized how hard it was to remove my profile. I was on Facebook and had to do a Google search to find out how to remove my profile. Facebook doesn‘t remove your profile for two weeks after you’ve chosen to walk away.
Report Post »paulusmaximus
Posted on October 3, 2011 at 9:00pmWhat they have they have already dropping it now is to late, should it become necessary to remove yourself from their sight it will require more then to drop Facebook. Pray you never need to disappear from government sight most people today couldn’t survive a week without something that would show were they are at.
Report Post »The-Monk
Posted on October 3, 2011 at 11:01pm@KeenEye
Report Post »Saw the same thing on SouthPark last night. Good luck trying to get away from Facebook or any other Internet Social Mediia Interface.
PS: Please don’t ad me as a friend. I don’t need or want it! Good luck.
skitrees
Posted on October 3, 2011 at 11:24pmKeeneye: If you believe that your profile was “removed” – you’re in for a big surprise. Perhaps normal folks can’t reach it, but I would almost guarantee that the data is still stored on (and owned by) Facebook. If you use any google products (which is pretty much anything Internet related now-a-days, android phones, youtube, you’ll probably even notice a quick hit to google.analytics when browsing theblaze.com, etc.), I‘d recommending reading Google’s full privacy policy every single day. They have a bad habit of trying to claim ownership of anything made, created, or viewed while using their products – they like using the word “perpetual” in their agreements that users routinely click OK to. When caught, each time they respond with something like – “We are sorry that this line was in the agreement, it was an oversite. The line in question is part of our standard contract, and should have been removed for the product in question” To which I always think, “your standard contract” contains verbiage to steal copyrights to everything a person creates?! Wow – no, that’s not evil at all!! But then you realize how many millions of books they openly copied – violating the copyrights right out in full view, and nobody hardly cares. Welcome to socialism – what is yours is mine. Thanks Google.
Report Post »jb.kibs
Posted on October 4, 2011 at 12:34amguys, you miss the dang point.
Report Post »he dropped it, he’s not longer active, WHO CARES WHAT THEY HAVE NOW. they get NO MORE.
spynx9775
Posted on October 4, 2011 at 9:21amHello, my name is Jerry and I am a FB addict. I have been facebook free for 48 hours. I feel fine. There are instructions on how to permanently delete your account on U-boob.
Report Post »CleanUpAisle2013
Posted on October 3, 2011 at 6:05pm@Kevin … agreed. Yeah, I just happened to go to The Blaze first that next morning and saw those ads. As my hour or two on the Internet continued those personally-aimed ads were showing wherever I went. I do understand that sites like Facebook state they may collect and pass on personal info and that by becoming a member I had to agree to that. I am actually one of those folks who click on “terms of agreement”. That’s why I submitted fake/minimum information. I did not mention that very same day I had actually planned to submit a little about myself on Facebook with only family members allowed access. So I filled in educational and work history and clicked to save it. This is not per se, but a message came back informing me that “The name you are using (Uncle+nickname) is not a real name. Your information will not be saved for display. Please submit your real name.” WTF??
Report Post »For me, however, this influx of ads with just me in mind was something new. I spend hours on the Internet daily for educational research as well as for the occasional inquiry into prices for items. I do not and never will shop online. But never before had I experienced all of those ads “for my personal purchasing pleasures” until last week. Something kicked in last week … Google? Facebook? … and suddenly it was, “Hey, dude, you forgot to buy this last week when you were wearing that red shirt with the stain on the collar and, oh, by the way your dish washer just cycled off.” Big Barry? That
msaright
Posted on October 3, 2011 at 6:01pmmake the gov’t subpoena the info!
Report Post »COASTIE90
Posted on October 3, 2011 at 8:04pmYou read my mind. Get rid of the Patriot act.
Report Post »jb.kibs
Posted on October 4, 2011 at 12:36amexactly, why do they need it? it’s perverted, it’s peeping tomish, it’s stalker behavoir.
Report Post »TomFerrari
Posted on October 3, 2011 at 5:11pmFacebook has just begun REQUIRING a telephone in order to create an account.
AND, you can only create ONE account for each phone!
So, if you have 5 people in your home and only 1 phone… well, four of you will NOT be allowed to have facebook accounts until you sign up for four more telephones!
This also creates a link between your fb account and your telephone records so the government can factually identify your fb account back to you telephone account, payment information, address, social security number, dob, job history, credit card records, and…
and tie it all to every statement you make on facebook.
Now, I also just read, anything you post that contains “obama” or “white house” is re-broadcast on the WH official page. As such, it becomes a permanent record of the WH and is available to them and searchable by them…
FOREVER.
Big Brother IS watching.
Report Post »Suzanne
Posted on October 3, 2011 at 6:02pmExactly…I quit facebook when Obama had his little meeting with all the internet big-wigs…I knew changes were about to happen there. The price you pay for a false sense of ‘security’….will always be your right to privacy. Nothing they try to do to ‘protect members’ is beyond a half-decent hacker….and will always be implemented and exploited by police or government. It was only a matter of time and advances in technology before the www became a haven for malfeasance and exploiters of all kinds…even from our government.
Report Post »Jwmajic
Posted on October 3, 2011 at 6:34pmThats why I always call him Obozo the clown when I post.
Report Post »DaytonConserve
Posted on October 3, 2011 at 9:25pmSeveral years ago, google offered to pay taxicab companies to install tracking devices on their cabs to collect data for google. Not all companies participated out of concern for passenger privacy.
Report Post »The-Monk
Posted on October 3, 2011 at 10:22pm@TomFerrari
Report Post ».Then just leave them. Cancel your accounts in mass and drive them into the dust. With no users they have no power. With no power they have no authority over you. Just cancel your accounts and leave them hanging They will beg you to come back and will change their bad policies to reflect your chocies. It’s just that simple. Stop using Facebook and all the other sites and they will bow down to you. I don’t use any of these sites and never will
ThankBabyJesus
Posted on October 3, 2011 at 4:54pmWith great power come great responsibility ring a bell? Sooner or later this is going to come crashing down on all of us. History says so.
Report Post »COFemale
Posted on October 3, 2011 at 4:36pmWouldn’t they need a search warrant in order to get this information? This should not be any different than a search warrant having to be issued to a business in order to get data records. I know cyber laws are behind the curve, but these are businesses and should fall in line with every other business.
Time for a class action lawsuit, I think the whole country would participate.
If Google and Yahoo, are selling the information, what gives them the right to do this? Thankfully, I don’t use anything Google and I am considering not renewing my web space with Yahoo Business. Thankfully, I don’t post too much on Facebook. I just make occasional post to my daughter’s Wall.
Report Post »A Doctors Labor Is Not My Right
Posted on October 3, 2011 at 4:49pmTime to make millions of closed networks.
Report Post »Rowgue
Posted on October 3, 2011 at 4:53pmRead the terms of service before you sign up for something next time. They say right in there they reserve the right to sell your information to whomever they wish at their discretion. You either agree to those terms or you don’t use their site.
Report Post »JRook
Posted on October 3, 2011 at 5:00pmI am simply amazed that a site that loads no less than 20 third party tracking cookies including google.com keeps running negative ads about loss of privacy on the Internet. As though it is something sinister that they are not doing. Check for your self, goto internet options delete all cookies and then come to the blaze and go read what cookies are loaded. Also a good exercise to do on gbtv.com which you have to really like since it is a paid site. If you don’t think any number of these third party tracking cookie companies is not creating profiles and selling them your nuts.
Report Post »trolltrainer
Posted on October 3, 2011 at 5:14pmJROOK,
Why are you here then? If this site is so bad why would you frequent it?
Dump the cookies man, Firefox allows you to do it on signoff. No biggie. Why don’t you just get lost?
Report Post »JRook
Posted on October 3, 2011 at 5:27pm@trolltrainer Save it tiger. Only an ideological lemming would continue to support a site that identified and fueled such outrage over loss of privacy on the Internet, while being guilty of the same behavior. In some instances receiving money for providing access to these third party companies to the users. I am way paste deleting cookies, but you cannot comment if you shut cookies off. I do mask my IP and MAC address. You are excused.
Report Post »JRook
Posted on October 3, 2011 at 5:35pm@trolltrainer Typical response. Your attempt to deflect the issue from the analogous behavior from this site is both glaring and pitiful. March on Mein Trainer.
Report Post »trolltrainer
Posted on October 3, 2011 at 5:40pmYou would have to mask your IP if you wanted to join under 30 different names, now wouldn’t you?
But my question is still valid, why would you even bother hanging out here if the site offends you so much? Never mind playing the foolish little troll games? Is your life really that dull that you have nothing better to do? Why don’t you do something constructive with your life?
Report Post »Rowgue
Posted on October 3, 2011 at 6:35pmNot all cookies are tracking cookies. You can’t really do much with a website other than display information without using cookies. The site loading a bunch of cookies doesn‘t mean it’s tracking you. Though I wouldn‘t expect someone that apparently doesn’t realize how easy it is to keep from having your activity tracked via cookies to be able to tell the difference.
Report Post »Suzanne
Posted on October 3, 2011 at 4:36pmThere is nothing the government or other dataminers and hackers don’t have access to…there is no such thing as ‘privacy’ on the internet. Everything is recorded and socked away in a data base somewhere…and most of it is either easily accessible by those who know how…or is, and always has been, for sale. Sometimes…it takes months or even years to know that your non-public, personal and private information has been viewed, used or compromised…and by that time, the information has passed through so many different hands and databases…it’s impossible to tell who the original culprit was (some of these online data miners go out of business or change names, but everything is up for sale, and the government gets it all on demand. ) It’s been going on for years (skip tracers and genealogists)…and advances in technology are not always used for the purposes they were intended…or what they tell us it is intended for…that wonderful ‘tagging’ and facial recognition feature, for example…and everyone ‘networking’ and ‘sharing’….it‘s a minute by minute diary of everyone’s life…I used to worry about Fair/Issac… et.al. (credit scoring agencies) gathering unauthorized but readily accessible (for them) data from sources that are not supposed to divulge your private/financial information. They use all of it, financial and non-financial, to aggregate your credit score. Our right to privacy has been breached to the point of non-existence.
Report Post »JRook
Posted on October 3, 2011 at 5:01pmSo how do you feel about the 20 third party tracking cookies, including google.com that is loaded when you come to this site????
Report Post »Suzanne
Posted on October 3, 2011 at 5:16pmExactly my point…and I don‘t ’feel’ anything….I ‘know’ what they are doing and how they do it. There is only so much a ‘private’ person can do…it’s either put up with the BS and be aware…use ‘masking and IP routers’…clear cookies frequently…but the damage is already done. I use Ixquick search engine most of the time…I
Report Post »JRook
Posted on October 3, 2011 at 5:29pmBut you continue to support a company that does it why feigning outrage to Facebook and now Google.com for the same practice. This company cannot control the actions of the third party companies who’s tracking cookies are loaded here.
Report Post »Suzanne
Posted on October 3, 2011 at 6:37pmI don‘t ’support anything…any more than you do for the only purpose of berating the commenter of this forum…and I’m not feigning outrage to Facebook and now Google.com…I‘ve always known they engage in collecting and exploitation of user’s information…and only a matter of time before the government hijacked them into service. Until there viable alternatives, we deal with the issues the best we can…but, silencing ourselves out of ‘fear’ is not one of them. If the government or anyone else wants something bad enough, they will find a way to get it…with or without your approval. I like to keep current on the topics and appreciate comments from like-minded people here at the Blaze… but I don’t live for it, or anything else on the internet…I have a real life….you should get one too…
Report Post »commonsenseguy
Posted on October 3, 2011 at 4:24pmprivacy, what is that ??? they know everything about everyone, and if they have not,they will son enough,know when you have taken a dump,and how much toilet paper you used to wipe with and how many times you flushed,and if you washed your hands, no such thing as privacy, but i don’t care what they know about me, they will see that i am a conservative,i am for the constitution,i am for limited government, and i have communist, and i hate two faced lying anti americans who want to force their will on me and i hate people who think they know better and what is good for me, so what they know,they know, i hope they come visit me, because everyone will know about, it will be on the news,that i kick a communist in his butt and slapped his communist friends in the face. so if you are reading this,then please come on by and lets talk,
Report Post »commonsenseguy
Posted on October 3, 2011 at 4:29pmshould say ““ i hate communist ””
Report Post »wrsrvn67
Posted on October 3, 2011 at 4:37pmlol The govt will probably arrests us then brother !!!!
Report Post »JRook
Posted on October 3, 2011 at 5:03pmSo you are ok with the 20 third party tracking cookies that are loaded when you come to this site. And you think those companies are not creating profiles and selling them.
Report Post »ssingh1515
Posted on October 3, 2011 at 4:16pmGovernment stay out of the Internet. In other words, “keep the web free”.
Report Post »Rowgue
Posted on October 3, 2011 at 4:56pmHa Ha. The web has never been free. People are just becoming more aware of just how much they are being kept track of and by whom.
The only thing that‘s changed is that now most people have a slight clue about WHY they’re getting those five hundred spam emails everyday.
Report Post »LOJ
Posted on October 3, 2011 at 4:11pmIt appears sooner or later all we will have is our faith and the shirts on our backs.. The government will own everything else.
Report Post »AnotherCoverStory
Posted on October 3, 2011 at 3:55pmLooks like it’s not the only thing the government is up to.
Report Post »http://BiggestCoverUp.blogspot.com/
fatsomann
Posted on October 3, 2011 at 3:48pmI found out the hard way about internet and email security a few years back because of a law suit. Don’t ever put anything in writing (phone text, internet) or have a conversation over a cell phone that you don’t want to be tracked. There’s an id on everything.
Report Post »Brooke Lorren
Posted on October 3, 2011 at 7:45pmI agree. Even though I write a lot of articles and include some personal information about myself in the articles, there are certain things that I do not publish. I assume that everything that I write could be available for anybody to see at some point.
I’ve been surprised on a couple of occasions by who has actually seen my work. I don’t normally stalk my blog readers, but I remember the weekend after Van Jones said something about watching Beck fans to see what they are up to, I took a look at my blog’s visitor map, and noticed something odd. I traced one of the hits to the house of some wealthy Democratic “kingmaker” type of guy in Virginia. I have no clue why someone at that house visited my site, but unless it was a maid or something, they probably would have no agreement with anything that I was saying.
Report Post »Slayer
Posted on October 3, 2011 at 3:45pmThey told me if I voted for John McCain the government would have the power to be stealing my private info off the internet – and they were right!
Report Post »Snowleopard {gallery of cat folks}
Posted on October 3, 2011 at 3:45pmNo suprise there, we are into the gates and jaws of an authoritarian state.
Report Post »http://artinphoenix.com/gallery/grimm (cat folk art)
CleanUpAisle2013
Posted on October 3, 2011 at 3:44pmI firmly agree with all of you who refuse to give personal and family information on Facebook. I certainly do not. I enjoy it and use it only because I can keep up with nephews and nieces and their children who live many states away from me. However, I use a fake name and have not submitted any personal information period. You do have to submit an email address. So I gave one I never use. I’ve given up warning family members, some who see nothing wrong with posting photos of their small children and giving out their names, birth dates and where they attend school. Some of those also have their own phone numbers, places of work and job titles. You all know with the right programs that is plenty enough to steal their identifications. Unbelievable!
Report Post »But I gotta say that there is something The Blaze began doing last week that I borders on invasion of privacy, too. 99% of the time after I log off the Internet I click on my Flash Cookie app and delete all tracking cookies. One late night last week I neglected to do so. The next day when I logged on to The Blaze, there in the far right column were ads for everything I had been checking prices while online the day before. The Blaze may not be handing out your private information but do know it is tracking your online shopping searches and purchases and I have to assume other Internet ventures.
cessna152
Posted on October 3, 2011 at 3:57pmDo you report your taxes every year? IRS, Home, bills, etc—-they already have everything they need. All this other stuff is more of “detailed tracking”. The main point… government is TOO big because we have no voice.
Report Post »Kevin
Posted on October 3, 2011 at 4:00pm@CleanUpAisle2013
I don‘t think it’s the Blaze per se. I’ve been to several sites recently that have banner ads for things that I had recently looked at on another site.
I’m guessing the retail sites that you visit are dropping cookies that are readable by the banner ads. When you load a new site, if one of those banner ads comes up in the ad rotator, it pulls up the cookie and displays what you’ve been looking at.
I actually had one of those ads pop up on a competitor’s web site, so I doubt that the current site has a lot of control over it, other than allowing the banner ads in the first place.
Report Post »sillyfreshness
Posted on October 3, 2011 at 3:40pmSimple fix, don’t use Microsoft products whenever possible. Don’t use Facebook. If you want to do a Google search anonymously, use http://www.startingpage.com or http://www.startpage.com they use a proxy server that doesn’t hand out IP addresses to Google, but you still get Google results. Don’t help out these jackwagons anymore than you have to. I really hate Facebook too. They are a government stooge company.
Report Post »NeoKong
Posted on October 3, 2011 at 3:30pmOf course they collect it. Where they supposed to delete it or something….?
Report Post »Nothing disappears forever on the internet.
I bet within minutes that Goggle could tell anyone of us our search history going back ten years.
All data is stored and it is only a matter of time before govt. has access to all of it.
Your banking. Your purchases and travel. How fast you drive on the Turnpike. Your shopping preferences. Medical records and so on.
I bet Visa can tell me what I had for dinner on my birthday ten years ago. If BoA issued that card then the govt. knows too.
It is all collected.
trolltrainer
Posted on October 3, 2011 at 3:37pmYep! You cannot beat it, the question then becomes how to deal with it. Just be aware. You cannot hide, but if you need to keep something hidden then you need to be aware.
The government can retrieve anything it wants, recent court cases prove this, look at the Casey Anthony trial, they found those search results with no problem and also had phone records from cell phones. Other trials show the same things. Nothing is private. If it was done over a computer or electronically that generated computer records then it is retrievable and the government can get its hands on it.
Report Post »trolltrainer
Posted on October 3, 2011 at 3:45pmAlso…Be aware of security cameras. They are everywhere and up till now they have been pretty isolated. A business installs a few but those recordings are not shared in any way and are recorded over in a week’s time. But this is changing and with better technology these recordings are stored digitally and can be shared over the net. Any one of us can be traced throughout our day as we walk through town or through stores. Just be aware, I would not suggest doing a drug deal in the Walmart parking lot…Better to go out to the woods or lake…
Report Post »Anonymous T. Irrelevant
Posted on October 3, 2011 at 4:28pmLet the STUPID people make drug deals in view of security cameras. They’re the ones that need to be caught.
Report Post »whereareyourbrains
Posted on October 3, 2011 at 3:20pmAnother community organization plan going perfectly as planned. People this is all part of the community organizers plans. He is going to have us under his total control before you know it.
Report Post »Look at the articles and protests out in the world and here in the US. Do you really think they aren’t tied together and planned so the take over can be done without a gun shot….He was Just a community organizer…be afraid, be very afraid.
LookTowardsTheLight
Posted on October 3, 2011 at 3:20pmIn America, people use Google to search
In Soviet America, Google searches YOU!
Report Post »heyjim55
Posted on October 3, 2011 at 3:19pmMaybe we should all stop using the internet , Obama could use it later if he is re elected and go after anyone who spoke out against him. It’s not impossible since he is well on his way of destroying the Constitution and the Bill Of Rights. This could be the last election we have , he already has extended the emergency powers act making him a defacto dictator in the case of a emergency and he can decide what a emergency is.
Report Post »Fly Old Glory 24/7 365
Posted on October 3, 2011 at 3:34pmI like to call the little boy in the WH, Barack Hussein…
Report Post »jmc610
Posted on October 3, 2011 at 3:19pmI get made fun of because I don’t have a Facebook or Twiiter account, I won’t buy an android phone because it has Google built in & I don’t use Google to search…
Report Post »I don’t even say “Google It”! LOL!!!
LookTowardsTheLight
Posted on October 3, 2011 at 3:29pm@JMC610
I’m the same. I don’t “Facebook” cause my friends are my friends in REAL life and not a bunch of 1′s, 0′s and pixels. However, I don‘t like Apple so if I want a smart phone I’m stuck with my droid. I’m just careful what I put on it…or say into it :-)
Report Post »trolltrainer
Posted on October 3, 2011 at 4:08pmTo this post I had responded that you might as well use Google because every other search engine saves your data also. If you need to do something confidential then just use an app like Tor ( https://www.torproject.org/ ) that bounces your IP address around. Or just use free restaurant wireless like Starbucks or MacDonalds.
Report Post »johnpaulkuchtajr
Posted on October 3, 2011 at 4:12pmSmart man!
Report Post »trolltrainer
Posted on October 3, 2011 at 3:19pmThe government does indeed want to control you. Info is king. The thing is…When you throw your information out there then it is public. This is all just a smoke screen anyway, the government already has access to everything. Nothing is private anymore, or at best it is very difficult to keep something private. Is it admissible in a court of law? That is another matter. But the fact is the government can already get any detail about you it wants. Welcome to the digital age my friends, you want to beat it? Move to a third world country…That should gain you a decade or two anyway…
Report Post »korbin
Posted on October 3, 2011 at 3:15pmI thought the main reason was for Government to protect us? I am a fairly knowledgeable computer user, however I am 5 years behind. When is the private sector going to come up with a way to protect all our data for a fee? I hate this Governments intrusion, I trust Mexicos Government more than ours, thats pretty sad.
Report Post »wingedwolf
Posted on October 3, 2011 at 3:14pmWhich is exactly why I keep laughing at my friends who put all their family info on facebook. I don‘t have anything on line anywhere that I wouldn’t want on the front page of every newpaper in the world.
Report Post »United States of America
Posted on October 3, 2011 at 3:17pmPlus 1
Report Post »trolltrainer
Posted on October 3, 2011 at 4:04pmInterestingly, I had two responses to other posts disappear in this article. Neither one was controversial or said much of anything so I am assuming it is a server error. Still…Mighty annoying.
To this post my response was. “exactly! If you do not want it out there then don’t put it on facebook!”
Report Post »ibthumper
Posted on October 3, 2011 at 7:17pmHow true
Report Post »Theleftisda
Posted on October 3, 2011 at 3:10pmThe government wants to control you (info is king)
Report Post »vennoye
Posted on October 3, 2011 at 3:19pmNO, information is POWER!!
Report Post »Fly Old Glory 24/7 365
Posted on October 3, 2011 at 3:36pminformation is knowledge….
Report Post »Egad
Posted on October 3, 2011 at 4:24pmJust a thought while reading this..
Satan gave Eve the apple from the Tree of Knowledge, now we are giving knowledge to the Apple (computer)
The bible states the LORD knows every hair on your head.
Information collected for the Apple about you from birth.
Ultra Sound in the womb (did anyone check to see if this is the cause of autism?)
Footprints, Blood Type, DNA at birth
Behavior, learning dis/abilities, testing results in school.
Licensing, permits, etc collect eye & hair color, height and weight, residency, fingerprints
Health insurance collected voice prints, some iris scanning
Medical insurance collects all info including MRI’s, Cat Scans, Xrays has your internal information
Facebook collects facial recognition, friends and family, your activities and routines.
Payroll and banking systems collect all financial information
Tax systems collects all info about the property you own..
Maybe this does not give the number of hairs on our head but there may be an “App” for that soon.
Now there are several “Applets” for our children connecting them to a “Flood of information and the ”Lieway to Hell” hence disconnecting them from God, Mother Earth and the ability to think for themselves.
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