You can learn so very much about a person and build a highly accurate and surprisingly detailed "profile" of them from just the "metadata" of their calls and te

You can learn so very much about a person and build a highly accurate and surprisingly detailed "profile" of them from just the "metadata" of their calls and text messages [0]. They almost certainly already know where you live and whom you live with, where you work, where you shop for groceries and hang on, where you travel to on vacation, and so on. For many years now, they've been capturing this "metadata" (at minimum) anyways -- to hand over to the U.S. Government on a daily basis -- so we really shouldn't be surprised that they decided to take advantage of that and use this information in any way that they can. Personally, for quite a while now, my "default" has been to automatically assume that pretty much ANY data I provide to any company WILL be kept -- forever -- and used in absolutely any way whatsoever they they desire and/or for any purpose, including "sharing" it with any other company to be used in any way and for any purpose (and even if they aren't right now, that can change at any time). -- As an aside, Gen. Hayden (former DIRCIA/DIRNSA) testified that, "We kill people based on metadata". -- [0]: Additionally, any "missing pieces" of their profile of you can probably be "filled in", thanks to their access to your (Internet) data that also travels across their network. Of course, I'm sure they would NEVER do anything like that -- nor anything they might ever need "retroactive immunity" for!