Social Networking -- the new way to reach out and touch millions!  Everyone's doing it.  Are you on Facebook and Twitter?  I am.  I hired someone to help me maintain my page!  It's the new way to do business!  My company told us if you're not on this you're going to be obsolete.  I have 25,000 followers already ... "Researchers on both sides of the Atlantic are busy as proverbial bees building a 'total information' surveillance system, one that will, so they hope, provide police and security agencies with what they euphemistically call 'actionable intelligence.'"  (Read the Tom Burghardt article here.)

It all began with 9/11, in the name of security and keeping people safe.  Data mining and the organization thereof creates "automatic dossiers" that put a human face on a collection of activities -- yours.  "Knowledge Base Population" is the identification of "entity types" through the use of open-source materials.  That also means your self-descriptions on eHarmony and Match.com ... have you ever thought about why online dating is so heavily marketed?  We are so willing to put our best foot forward into the "E" world, not realizing that a few keystrokes can add up all our information and provide it to any other entity.  "I have nothing to hide," you say.  You may think so, but what makes you tick is highly sought after ... so that the future you will tick on cue!  We're in an engineered society, don't forget it.  The point is to perfect the engineering, which means Uncle Sam wants your details, your facts, your desires ... provided willingly by none other than you.

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