I am a politician. This you all know.

Let me say this. The act of collecting data on people must cease. I am going to lay out my case in a manner that I hope appeals to Conservatives, Liberals, Undecideds and anyone else.

Data is power. With the right data you can literally know someone else more than they know themselves.

Let me make a hypothetical female for you, and break down a future of monitoring all data points on that person.

The first thing they will know is she is 25, single, but looking, makes $35,000 a year, rents, has good furniture, and her car is almost paid off.

These are the easy parts. But the data never stops there. By studying when she buys tampax they can determine when she is likely to need to purchase tampax in the future. She always buys the 24 pack, and they can determine the hour of the day she will be in the store, and what store she will be in as well. They also know a high likely percentage chance of her not having one when her period starts at work and where she will buy an over priced two tampon pack at the local store.

By studying the bread purchases, the soft drink purchases, the other foods she buys they monitor her diet and what effects minor and moderate prices range jumps will do to her. They also know if she is deficient in some vitamins or nutrients based upon her purchases. Her future predictive health will further be analyzed by her costs (since doctor records are secure they must go off the credit card costs) of her medical care.

They know her gas mileage in her car based upon when she passes watchers (devices that scan license plates) and how much she pays for gas. They know how she votes in general (and if she donates to anything).

Her searches online also show her desires and worries. Using social media they also fine tune her political desires to a tighter level and identify family (and correlate her data with family).

They know when she copies music from online illegally, they know her classes (books are purchased online), they know her probable weight (size of clothes she purchases) and that she was a late bloomer (based on bra sizes purchased since she turned 18).

They know her power consumption as well and her tax load is already printed somewhere for filing.

They will know based on future performance what she will buy in furniture, possibly what sort of house excites her, what color of clothes will attract her in a given season, and that she will love the new ginger ale flavored gums that company XYZCBA will be introducing.

They even can determine what sort of guy will likely attract her attention.

Then they decide they will choose her guy, and when she searches for a new hangout space (predicted) they set her up with their chosen guy. It was not to hard, it is statistics. They also chose to make her feel happy for now, because she does not yet make enough money for them to want to milk her, but she is going to advance, she has a fire to advance that is clear by the coursework she is taking. Then they will pitch a specific house they just bought property for her for. That and the people she will like to hang out with as well will be moved there. They plan her next car purchase, they manipulate her politics by changing a few words from the original website her her specific computer (and since she will never meet anyone with a different computer to view that specific website...). They chose which cable programming she needs with a 'custom fit choice' package that generically fits her and 10% of the population.

They know she will vote for two issues they do not like. They know that she will not change her mind regardless on one (in the midterm) and attend rallies for it if made, and they know she will not attend or vote on the other if the protests are big enough. They know how others will handle such as well. They will use her if needed to protest on the first, and use protests to deter her on the second.

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Data collection is a serious danger for society. With a high enough collection level, and a sophisticated and power enough computer, a society can be manipulated in the strongest manners. You will never realize it, you will never know you were being manipulated, and total power will go to a group much smaller than the 1%. Yes total power in the hands of a very small group.

For Conservatives... You never got told that this collection was going on. You were never told because you would have objected without enough return value. A mark down of a raised price is not reward enough for such power over you. You want millions, even billions for that. Your not some cheap sellout when the product is your very mind.

For Liberals... Your scared of the power of the 1%. What if this became the .1% only they controlled 99.9% of the wealth of the world via manipulations. What if they decided art was not needed. What if they decided that a war must occur against a nation not allowing data collection?

Data collection is getting out of control, and it is getting evil.

Last week I discovered that a small company has software in all our phones tracking us, our keystrokes, our activity levels. This is beyond the pale in my opinion.

I always have been against such collection, thus why I say Google is an evil company. I have great fears of a 1984 society via data collection and usage of the knowledge.

So here I am, I am going to try to get the IC community to mobilize with me. I want you to actually participate in trying for change. I want you to email your company you have a smart phone from, and express worries about this. I want you to email Google to do the same. I want you to also email one politician to express your worries (bonus credit for emailing more than one)

This issue cuts down any society. All sides can find common ground and reasons to unite together against this issue. Let us stop rampant data collection. PARTICIPATE!