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The stated reason for the turning over the logs is for a supposed study on pornography filters their effectiveness. Eventually, your kids will grow up. Don't gamble away their rights as children and as the adults that they will become.

If you think that my examples are out in left field, then you obviously don't work in technology. Insurance companies, banks, etc. looks at credit reports, watch lists and stuff like that now. So do the outsourced background check companies. It's just a matter of which databases get shared and cross-referenced. When insurance companies fight **every** claim ... why would it be so hard for you to assume that they would try to use information to adjust your rates based on your lifestyle? And most privacy agreements allow this data to be shared. All that's required is a business relationship between the companies (and yes, that includes sale of the information).

Right now, it's difficult to get the "total" picture of somebody based on data because the technology for is still not quite up to snuff. But it's getting faster all the time. The databases are getting bigger and bigger. If you could pull together a person's buying habits (read up on RFIDs), what they watch on TV (read up on what TiVo reports) and combine that with what they are doing on the Internet, you would get a pretty valuable and accurate idea of a person's lifestyle. So, if a company had access to that via business relationships, why couldn't they adjust your rates based on a personal profile?

You should read up on technology law. They have some good ones at Borders and Amazon. I like "Datatabase Nation" and "SpyChips". Note that these aren't science fiction books. They are in the political commentary section.
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