Comment Re:The eventual redefinition of "privacy" and the (Score 4, Insightful) 89
I think you're underestimating just how easily it is to collect data on you or how much data is actually collected.
You're assuming there are many hands in the pot, so to speak. That is, the information your wife and your doctor find can be different.
What if I told you that the wife and the doctor are storing the stuff they find in the same database, and are acting as both your wife AND your doctor?
Let me ask you this question: Can you list every single company that runs the rewards programs at various retail outlets? Grocery stores? Pharmacies? Who owns who? Who was purchased by who? etc.
You can't, you ignore it, it's too complex to figure out--but I guarantee you they have already shared every bit of data on you that is humanly possible to collect. And you do it all in the name of saving $0.10 on a box of cereal.
You're assuming there are many hands in the pot, so to speak. That is, the information your wife and your doctor find can be different.
What if I told you that the wife and the doctor are storing the stuff they find in the same database, and are acting as both your wife AND your doctor?
Let me ask you this question: Can you list every single company that runs the rewards programs at various retail outlets? Grocery stores? Pharmacies? Who owns who? Who was purchased by who? etc.
You can't, you ignore it, it's too complex to figure out--but I guarantee you they have already shared every bit of data on you that is humanly possible to collect. And you do it all in the name of saving $0.10 on a box of cereal.