The industrial data-gathering complex is expanding into ever more ethically dubious, ever more ridiculously unjustifiable niches. For an instant, I thought the

The industrial data-gathering complex is expanding into ever more ethically dubious, ever more ridiculously unjustifiable niches. For an instant, I thought the OP might be a link to a fake story in The Onion. I mean, it wouldn't be out of place there: "Fast-food chains collecting vast amounts of location data." And yet, no one is shocked.