The average citizen already is targeted. People have been voluntarily and involuntarily sharing their personal details, daily habits, purchases, and browsing ha

The average citizen already is targeted. People have been voluntarily and involuntarily sharing their personal details, daily habits, purchases, and browsing habits for years. It's probably safe to say that a lot of government agencies and companies know more about you than you do yourself (or at least they have that data). This move will be heavily criticized (as it should), but there's a false sense of security out there. Outfits like Palantir exist, Facebook and others have never been shy about tracking people without permission, and through public check ins people basically broadcast their physical location. In another thread yesterday someone was saying that they were a former FB employee and FB regularly purchased customer histories from Amazon and tied that to their own internal databases. That sounds very realistic. It's always strange how upset the tech community gets about actions like this when most of the companies people work for are doing it, and that information is getting sent to the government through things like national security letters, anyway.