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> They don't package this information and sell it wholesale to advertisers.

Yet. Genie, meet bottle.

Thinking this information will never be sold is short sighted and naive.

When it becomes advantageous for them to do so, they'll sell it in a heartbeat and then sell it again. Somewhere in there the FBI and the NSA will start making "requests" for them to share with the government.

What begins as clever social commentary in movies like Minority Report tends to wind up as a sad fact of life years later.



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