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Re:Everyone who can now see your entire internet history, in... by paulajohnson on Friday November 25, 2016 @06:41AM (#13036004)
This illustrates how slippery the distinction between communications data and metadata really is. The examples in the first paragraph would all just record that you had been to www.reddit.com.
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Re:Everyone who can now see your entire internet history, in... by petra on Friday November 25, 2016 @07:12AM (#13036156)
It's quite to look at your history and determine that you visited /r/The_Donald often, with good likelihood, automatically.
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Re:Everyone who can now see your entire internet history, in... by ForHackernews on Friday November 25, 2016 @08:28AM (#13036558)
Seriously, nobody at GCHQ cares that you support Donald Trump.
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Re:Everyone who can now see your entire internet history, in... by austinjp on Friday November 25, 2016 @09:22AM (#13036878)
SELECT * FROM dudes_with_doubleplusbad_opinions;

It's about profiling, how that profile is determined, and who accesses it under what circumstances.

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Re:Everyone who can now see your entire internet history, in... by m0nty on Friday November 25, 2016 @09:06AM (#13036776)
It was my slightly flippant example. I'm sure everyone knows that.
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