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Data, Data, Whose Got the Data
If we listen to some folks (and we better), it appears that “data mining” is a “monster under the bed” business, and depending on your particular involvement with certain things, particularly the Internet, there are companies out there (in the “cloud” I guess) who know more about you than you would think or wish. I never ceased to be amazed at the amount of information the younger generations are willing to share about their day to day life on Facebook, or other social networking formats. But that is the tip of the iceberg. There is now an enormous multibillion-dollar industry based on the collection and sale of this personal and behavioral data. There’s…