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Comment Probably (Score 1) 221

They probably are, however, I doubt it's as invasive as we think it is. The amount of staff that would be needed to sift through the volumes of data collected by traffic monitoring is massive. They probably look for certain keywords or phrases and follow the patterns of "hits" generated by those phrases to see what kinds of things are trending. Sort of like listening to radio chatter. Does it suck? Yes. Is there anything we can reasonably do about it? No. Does it bother me? Yes. Am I going to stop using the Internet? Fat chance.

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