> Can you imagine someone 20 years ago throwing all your mail into a scanner and saying, "don't worry I'm only checking for keywords and receipts"? Yes, and ac

> Can you imagine someone 20 years ago throwing all your mail into a scanner and saying, "don't worry I'm only checking for keywords and receipts"? Yes, and actually Acxiom is a lot more powerful and comprehensive than your postulation, if you care to look into them. Unregulated data mining is, in my opinion, going to lead to the next collapse of culture. The cow is already out of the barn and it's on the way to Chicago. I don't think it's an unfair analogy considering the experiments thus far in totalitarian environments.