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Karl Denninger: When People Will Suddenly Care

By Karl Denninger
2018-04-18 07:00

Nobody seems to care ( https://tinyurl.com/y96h299f ) about all the data scamming that is going on.

No prosecutions, no FTC actions, no fines, no mass-exodus from Facebook, no mass-destruction of Android or IOS phones, no tossing Zuckerpig in prison, nothing.

I'll tell you when someone will care.

It wouldn't be hard at all to pervert "ad targeting" to collect a database of people who are extremely likely to be, say, military members.

Or their families.

Or cops.

Or virtually any other tightly-correlated group of people.

You can get very precise given the volume of data and tools today.

So you set up a company that allegedly wants to "advertise" to said people, you buy ads with that targeting and those who "click" or otherwise "interact" you now have pinpointed. In a short while you can correlate them through other sources and now you know who they are in real lifenot just as numbers in a machine.

You know exactly where they work, where they live (down to the actual street address), where they worship (if they worship), where their children go to school and where they shop.

That little device in your teen's pocket, never mind yours, delivers your location on an exact basis, within tens of feet, 24x7 every single day.

The problem is that the bad guy isn't a company trying to sell laundry detergent or timeshares.

They're jihadists. Or Antifas. Or any other group -- or individual -- with motive and money -- and these days, not all that much money either. A few million is more than enough.

Still think all this tracking is no big deal, eh?

As soon as the wrong entity decides to do this sort of thing if you're in the group they choose to target you're going to be dead wrong.

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