cmendla - 2:06 pm on Oct 22, 2007 (gmt 0)

The other thing is that governments and legal authorities could perhaps force them to release all this information on people when they require it.

Don't forget the 'shark-in-a-suit' brigade - aka lawyers. I have one of those EZPass things that lets you get through the tolls faster. Every entrance and exit on a toll road or bridge is recorded. Lawyers are now suing to get that info, especially for divorce cases.

I think it's a matter of time before lawyers realize the amount of data they can get. As far as the time required to sift through it, they bill by the hour so the more the merrier for both sides..

I'm not sure about the backlash part though.. In the US, people are being turned into spineless castrati. A majority of people will be more interested in who wins survivor.

I did work with a guy when I was a civilian with the navy 2 decades back. He refused to put his social security number on his travel orders and travel refused to pay. It went up through our captain and admiral, to NAVSUP, then to the senate armed services committee. The answer came all the way back down... "Pay him and no, he doesn't have to put his ssn on the form"... How many people would take a chance on their careers by sticking their necks that far out? (BTW - he got a promotion to FEMA not long afterwards)

The good thing is that a lot of the IT people are more or less independent thinkers and might be motivated to try some rebellion. I wonder how many people will lose their adsense accounts in the process?

Cg