Friday, August 5, 2016

This Company Has Built a Profile on Every American Adult

Via sauced07

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Every move you make. Every click you take. Every game you play. Every place you stay. They’ll be watching you.

Forget telephoto lenses and fake mustaches: The most important tools for America’s 35,000 private investigators are database subscription services. For more than a decade, professional snoops have been able to search troves of public and nonpublic records—known addresses, DMV records, photographs of a person’s car—and condense them into comprehensive reports costing as little as $10. Now they can combine that information with the kinds of things marketers know about you, such as which politicians you donate to, what you spend on groceries, and whether it’s weird that you ate in last night, to create a portrait of your life and predict your behavior.

IDI, a year-old company in the so-called data-fusion business, is the first to centralize and weaponize all that information for its customers.

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4 comments:

  1. Yo, Brock. This means there's a dossier on you. Be careful with rousing a rabble. Hehehehe

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    1. I'm proud to say that the $PLC lists FNC as anti-government running two years in a row!:) If you aren't on a list, you're doing something wrong. :)

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  2. This is only relevant to people who leave a "paper trail" For those of us with no credit cards in our name and no "smart phone" .....Not so much. None can "track" you without YOU supplying them with the information. I laugh at people who rail about Liberty while putting the governments slave collar (smart phone & credit cards)on.---Ray

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    1. I laugh at people who rail about Liberty while putting the governments slave collar (smart phone & credit cards)on.

      You have already lost since you won't come out in the open and fight visibly.

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