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Originally Posted by widebody911

if the nsa/fbi/cia were to propose a program where everyone's interpersonal contacts and their daily activities were to be gathered up into a huge database, people would scream bloody murder. Yet they give all that info willingly to mark zuckerburg and facebook.

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I once worked with an old Russian guy who simply couldn't understand today's obsession with social media. He said that the KGB would've given anything for a thing like this back in the day. They spent countless millions of rubles and invested huge amounts of time trying to gather just the type of information that people are now giving away for free to social media sites.