It might be more accurate to state - The move towards complete availability of all digital information for commercial gain seems to be a force of history. Perh

It might be more accurate to state - The move towards complete availability of all digital information for commercial gain seems to be a force of history. Perhaps individuals are just the low-hanging fruit and these are just the early stages of the process. However it strikes me that all the forces pushing for open-ness stand to profit from it and the relationship is rather one sided at this point. Facebook, to pick the obvious example, does not seem too forthcoming with information on who has access to the data you so freely and readily provide to them and what is done with it. Perhaps once people connect the dots and realise that the reason their life insurance premuims are going up is because they are posting too many photos of themselves drinking at parties then the pendulum will swing the other way.