So mountain/molehill caused by the press, then.

( Monty Boyce, My cheese game is strong, Mon 10 Jun 2013, 12:05, 2 replies, latest was 12 years ago)

Irony is that Credit Card Companies/Advertisers/Supermarkets probably know more about you as an individual than the Gov will ever.

(socynicalsohip, Mon 10 Jun 2013, 12:08, Reply)

I don't see how they could know anything about me.
Although I am aware that Nakers ensures that the stuff I want to buy is stocked at my local supermarket.
( tangledupinblue hairy badge with moving eyes, Mon 10 Jun 2013, 12:10, Reply)

Do you pay in cash for everything?
Do you never use the same card more than once?
Have you never booked a flight with a credit card?
Ever completed APIS on said booking?
Delete your cookies after every website you visit?

Companies make a fortune aggregating these breadcrumbs we leave.
(socynicalsohip, Mon 10 Jun 2013, 12:15, Reply)

He lives in a Yurt and gets his food from the hedgrows.

(PsychoChomp, Mon 10 Jun 2013, 12:16, Reply)

This is a close enough summation, yes.
I don't own any credit cards or supermarket loyalty cards.
I do most of my internet browsing at work and tend to get targeted adverts related to my job.
( tangledupinblue hairy badge with moving eyes, Mon 10 Jun 2013, 12:30, Reply)

Fair one.
Although supermarkets do track you via your debit card.
They get all the benefit of the loyalty scheme without giving you jack.
(socynicalsohip, Mon 10 Jun 2013, 12:57, Reply)

Ever been in an accident that wasn't your fault?

( Monty Boyce, My cheese game is strong, Mon 10 Jun 2013, 12:16, Reply)

In terms of the telephony data.
It's not really yours or personal, it'll show things like:
Number dialed, Time, date, duration, routing, costtype (local/international ect), and outcome (success/fail/engaged/abbandoned etc) original number is available but we anonomyse it.

From that information and some decent analysis you can probably work out where someone works, who they call the most, how long they take to speak to people and maybe if you've got enough time how many different people use the phone line.

That information is useful for me/us because we can use it to check how people are using the service and forecast demand and then get staffing right over the next few months making it a better service, no idea how that information could ever help finding a terrorist.
(PsychoChomp, Mon 10 Jun 2013, 12:11, Reply)

You could probably do some network analysis to find a terrorist cell
if they were stupid enough to all call each other using the same number every time and you knew at least one of them was a terrorist.
(PsychoChomp, Mon 10 Jun 2013, 12:13, Reply)

AQ would learn alot by just watching the Wire

(socynicalsohip, Mon 10 Jun 2013, 12:18, Reply)

I learnt a lot by just watching The Wire, too.
I learnt that I think 'cult US cop dramas' are a tedious heap of shit.
( Monty Boyce, My cheese game is strong, Mon 10 Jun 2013, 12:29, Reply)

Did they use words you didn't know?

(PsychoChomp, Mon 10 Jun 2013, 12:30, Reply)

Sheet etc

(socynicalsohip, Mon 10 Jun 2013, 12:32, Reply)

So you watched it?

(socynicalsohip, Mon 10 Jun 2013, 12:32, Reply)

I was given a cast iron guarantee that it was brilliant
so I watched about three episodes and complained. I was then assured that I simply hadn't watched enough so I watched several more.

It was gash. My friend was telling me how amazingly realistic it was. My friend, the medical market researcher, married with two kids, who lives in suburban London and would be unlikely to find Baltimore on a fucking map, let alone comment on the accuracy of a drama set there.

Load of old toss.
( Monty Boyce, My cheese game is strong, Mon 10 Jun 2013, 12:35, Reply)

cf the time I went to Cork, tried the Guinness - it was exactly the fucking same as in London.
Oh no, you have to have it in Dublin.

Then I got re-routed through Dublin - it was once again exactly the same.

tl:dr People talk shit
( Monty Boyce, My cheese game is strong, Mon 10 Jun 2013, 12:36, Reply)

No one cares what you think :((((

(PsychoChomp, Mon 10 Jun 2013, 12:44, Reply)

I've got 10000 followers on Twitter ACTUALLY

( Monty Boyce, My cheese game is strong, Mon 10 Jun 2013, 12:48, Reply)

Alright Battered

( tangledupinblue hairy badge with moving eyes, Mon 10 Jun 2013, 12:51, Reply)