possibility..i've not seen in the news.
Your GM car has onstar, your phone of course tracks everything. You go to the same bar, or restaurant, or club meeting or bowling league, or walmart every week about the same time. No bid deal.
Unless maybe there is also someone there on a Watch List...now your location and their's overlap often...perhaps now YOU are on a watch list...
Harvesting data is one thing. Making intelligent and appropriate use of it is another.....
Let's take some real-world examples, that don't have much (if anything) to do with today's level of automated data surveillance.....
Given the ongoing drug problems in BC, RCMP execute many No-Knock entry warrants every year. The # of times they kick down the wrong door is in the
thousands. Many times, it's just something as simple as confusion over a civic address.....
Photo-radar was tried here a very long time ago. The
real reason it got cancelled was that politicians kept getting photographed in cars, in the company of people that they
never should be seen with....... if the problem was solely public outrage over automated tickets (that went to the owner of the vehicle, not the driver), then we'd still have it.
Governments (and today's corporations) have demonstrated little competence in securing and protecting people's data...... setting aside my views on personal privacy for the moment,
just the issue of handling the data competently is what concerns me.
That ^ issue is bad enough..... w/o even straying over to the "Tinfoil-Hat" territory of data being faked.
IMO, even if you fall into the (default Marketing Demographic)
Nothing to Hide category that most people do, you
should be concerned. Otherwise, you are assuming a level of competence and accountability that often isn't present.
Rgds, D.
