> You used to have to go there, or phone, and you were only looking for information about a specific person. Exactly. If $INTERNET_DATA_HARVESTER had to pay s

> You used to have to go there, or phone, and you were only looking for information about a specific person. Exactly. If $INTERNET_DATA_HARVESTER had to pay someone to watch whenever it wanted to see what I did on the internet, it would cost them a lot of money, so they would only watch if they had a reasonable suspicion of profit. Even at starvation wages of $2/day, that's $700/yr/person, which would bankrupt the major data harvesters. Even if Facebook only paid each starving person to stumble over to the DMV one day a year, it would cost them $42 billion to monitor their users.