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leveymg

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Sun Oct-23-11 02:04 PM
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23. What your supermarket knows, so does NSA/DHS. Both buy open source data, like your grocery receipts

from consumer data aggregators. They know where you shop, how much you spend, what you eat . . . it all goes into the profile. Don't buy too much humus, lamb and couscous or you may trigger some red flag and get bumped up into a higher interest category.

The problem is, they think they know more about you from these things than they actually do and there are so many false positives, the whole system is probably counter-productive to identifying actual terrorists.

Officer Mike, wanna come for dinner? You already know what's we're serving tonight, so bring the right wine this time.

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