Scary stuff - it used to be that people were worried about how
governments might invade their privacy; then they got upset about
firms using their personal data; now the big issue seems to be
firms gathering your personal information and sharing it with law
enforcement and state security w/o your consent. This is stuff I've
been tracking as an academic - Ebay's dubious behavior is
emblematic of a wider trend. And these little cooperative
arrangements may be de rigueur in the future - there are some
worrying proposals floating around in the international ether to
(a) oblige ISPs to gather and store information on their customers'
habits, and (b) then make them share it with governments.
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