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As much as I dislike the goverment keeping tabs on me, in various forms, it allways surprises me that hardly anyone raises questions about the information that is freely traded to anyone willing to pay, by private enterprise down to unsavory details about your shopping habits, driving habits, phone habits, living, schools and other personal information.

I do realise that the goverment can have a great deal of influence over my well being, if I'am perceived in some manner to step outside of norm, or get brought to their attention by someone possibly out for revenge of some perceived slight.

As bad as that is, in general terms, its nothing compared to how private enterprise controls your life, and how difficult it can be to correct an error. Like everything else, their knowledge of you do in many aspects facilitate you life, but the dark side can have unimaginable impact. All this knowledge about you is routinely dealt with by people with litle or no concern about your privacy, and are it seems accountable to their employer and no one else.

Why isn't there the same kind of upset about this private information out there.?

I avoid, unfortunately, Great Britain as if it was the pest impersonated, because of their intrusion in private life. I worry that we aren't to far away from it here. George Orwell had the right insight about the future, he just missed it by a few years.

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  Natureboy1 year, 2 months ago
  
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  "As bad as that is, in general terms, its nothing compared to how private enterprise controls your life"
  
  And it is largely private enterprise which controls the government.
  
  Around and around we go.
  
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