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In reply to the discussion: Take A Break From The Snowden Drama For A Reminder Of What He's Revealed So Far [View all]intaglio
(8,170 posts)Because they collect that data already and such data collection is essential to how their businesses work. Please educate yourself about modern technology. Many people do not want their spouse to see your phone habits but that does not stop such mobile phone records being subpoenaed in difficult divorces.
I would also expect you to educate yourself about legality. I was informed at length in another thread about how a dissent by Thurgood Marshall showed such data collection to unconstitutional. I need hardly point out to you that a dissent from the verdict of the Supreme Court means that the Supreme Court did not think such data collection infringed the protection from "unlawful searches and seizures."
What you are objecting to is creepyness - well, welcome to the modern world; the internet and all digital communications depend upon metadata, they do not work without it. And infamously anything you put on the internet can come back to haunt you.
People used to find it creepy to be "spied on" by video cameras everywhere, well guess what? Nobody notices now unless there is a lack of such cameras recording crimes and disasters. Get used to the creepyness and assume, if you must, that you never say anything that would later cause you embarrassment or that you could not defend in court.