A friend sent me this link : http://www.aclu.org/pizza/images/screen.swf
This is hilarious, but the scary part about it is that it's probably not too far away from being reality.
Want to know how to order a pizza in 2017?
Click the link and see. Turn up the volume. Listen closely. Watch the pointer carefully!
Yes - This is funny, but not sure how real it is. Here is my take on this reality (If you care)
1) What the government is collecting is a one way street, they take from business but do not provide anything back, they want to keep it a secret. The concerns I have is not around the aggregation of the data, which is what the NSA, an agency set up to spy on people is currently doing, but when they start breaking down the aggregation into individual monitoring. Yes this is conceivable, but assuming the courts and congress prevent this from happening (large assumption, since they have not shown any resistance to date), then let the government collect this data and attempt to mine it looking for bad guys
2) I have no issues with business collecting information about their consumers. My spending habits and past purchases are a vital piece of helping that business reconnect with me in order to get me to make a subsequent purchase. There is a relationship (CRM - Customer Relationship Management) they are establishing with me and building brand loyalty. Again, unless there is an advantage or profit for the business to share customer information amongst themselves, i don't see this type of future. Will business know more about me then I suspect? Absolutely, but I don't see a national database, run by either gvt or business that will share all my information together in one. This is when it becomes a real problem. As long as my purchasing history and preferences remains spread out across multiple non connected databases, then I don't see this as a reality
Also this was produced by the ACLU, and not a big fan of them either
Thank you and happy Friday :)
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