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    Data Brokers

    So beating up on the NSA has gotten old so I thought I'd toss out a story that was brought to my attention recently and where the perpetrators have far less reason to be tolerated.

    The Data Brokers: Selling your personal information
    http://www.cbsnews.com/videos/the-data-brokers-selling-your-personal-information/
    Steve Kroft investigates the multibillion dollar industry that collects, analyzes and sells the personal information of millions of Americans with virtually no oversight.


    I think I'll have to upgrade my normal paranoia to something far more thorough.
    life itself was a lightsaber in his hands; even in the face of treachery and death and hopes gone cold, he burned like a candle in the darkness. Like a star shining in the black eternity of space.

    Yoda: Dark Rendezvous

    "But those men who know anything at all about the Light also know that there is a fierceness to its power, like the bare sword of the law, or the white burning of the sun." Suddenly his voice sounded to Will very strong, and very Welsh. "At the very heart, that is. Other things, like humanity, and mercy, and charity, that most good men hold more precious than all else, they do not come first for the Light. Oh, sometimes they are there; often, indeed. But in the very long run the concern of you people is with the absolute good, ahead of all else..."

    John Rowlands, The Grey King by Susan Cooper

    "You come from the Lord Adam and the Lady Eve", said Aslan. "And that is both honour enough to erect the head of the poorest beggar, and shame enough to bow the shoulders of the greatest emperor on earth; be content."

    Aslan, Prince Caspian by CS Lewis


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    Re: Data Brokers

    I can't watch the video right now, but I hear an "advertisement" in NPR (which, locally, comes out of Central Michigan University, one of the places I've graduated from) that Central now offers a degree in Data Mining.

    I'm tempted... just because I want to know how to be a jerk in the modern style.
    Every moment of a life is a horrible tragedy, a slapstick comedy, dark nihilism, golden illumination, or nothing at all; depending on how we write the story we tell ourselves.

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