I'll just leave this here:<p>[1] "It turns out that Facebook also buys data about your offline purchases. The next time you pay for a burrito with your credit card, Facebook will learn about this transaction and match this credit card number with the one you added in Messenger.<p>In other words, Messenger is a great Trojan horse designed to learn everything about you."<p>[1] <a href="https://techcrunch.com/2018/03/23/facebook-knows-literally-everything-about-you/" rel="nofollow">https://techcrunch.com/2018/03/23/facebook-knows-literally-e...</a>
From 2018!<p>[2] "Google now knows when its users go to the store and buy stuff.<p>Google has begun using billions of credit-card transaction records to prove that its online ads are prompting people to make purchases – even when they happen offline in brick-and-mortar stores [...] Privacy advocates said few people understand that their purchases are being analyzed in this way"<p><a href="https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/the-switch/wp/2017/05/23/google-now-knows-when-you-are-at-a-cash-register-and-how-much-you-are-spending/" rel="nofollow">https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/the-switch/wp/2017/05/23...</a>
From 2017!<p>Consumer data is the gold the consumer appears to be giving away, unwittingly or carelessly, regardless of the regime or geographic location.
This is where the US is heading if we continue our down our current path. I wouldn't be surprised if Microsoft started sending data from linkdin to the credit agencies.
This isn't already been going on since forever? Doesn't any government need read-only access to a citizen's bank accounts for taxes already?<p>What am I missing?