This is the reason why I don't fear government surveillance as much as corporate surveillance. The government simply can't process all the data they collect. And the value of obtaining information from the data can be highly variable.
Corporate data collection and analysis efforts are optimized for least cost/highest return. They really don't care about individuals as much as they do classes/tranches of people. However, the most concerning part is when corporations will pass on, willingly or unknowingly, their trade secrets to the government to improve the latter's techniques.
Corporate data collection and analysis efforts are optimized for least cost/highest return. They really don't care about individuals as much as they do classes/tranches of people. However, the most concerning part is when corporations will pass on, willingly or unknowingly, their trade secrets to the government to improve the latter's techniques.