Information Brokers, a new growth industry!

I have been ranting on about the internet and how much information can be gathered on us, so it naturally follows that perhaps I should create a new growth industry. There is a fortune out there in information. All it needs is a channel to sell it. Now, perhaps I am too late, and someone has beat me to it. We know it is there, all we have to do is market it.

What sort of information would one want? Well, suppose you have an employee who you suspect is goofing off. Perhaps at the bar all afternoon instead of being out doing sales calls. Well, you could check his charge cards records. You could find out exactly what bar he was at and how much he had to drink. All time stamped.

The use of plastic money could be the downfall of a lot of nefarious activities. Suspect your spouse is cheating? Well, buy a little information and you could have him (or her) nailed. Gas cards, plastic money, hotel computers and the sort all have information that could be tapped and used to track the scoundrels.

Forget emails and computer records. That information is too unreliable. Your spending habits could be the downfall. But, lets not forget that little toy we all pack around. The cell phone knows all! Yup, it sure as heck does. How do you think it gets calls to your belt? It knows where you are down to a couple of miles. All the time you travel around it is reporting your location to the nearest cell site. In the country they can be a few miles apart. In big cities as near as a few blocks. If the information from them could be tapped just think of the possibilities.

So, think about it the next time you get a cell call or use a bank machine. Big brother, as he has been refered to, could indeed be watching.

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