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<blockquote data-quote="Mos Eisley" data-source="post: 3586337" data-attributes="member: 7235">Big box stores are in cahoots with Apple.&nbsp; This is from training classes (data collection) I have taken at my big box cell provider, not a conspiracy theory.&nbsp; They (Home Depot for one) have extra gadgets in their ceiling to pinpoint your location down to a few inches.&nbsp; They know which item you might be looking at and for how long.&nbsp; This was billed to us as a way they can conveniently provide you with say, a coupon, for that item while you are looking at it.&nbsp;&nbsp; Probably less of a shock, but the same training class talked about how they already use your receipts to send coupons to your house so &quot;it&#039;s not that different&quot;.&nbsp; We thought it was just creepy.&nbsp; Same class: Walmart collects 2.5 petabytes of unstructured data every hour.&nbsp; That&#039;s 2,500,000,000,000,000 bytes.&nbsp; A byte is equal to a single letter. That&#039;s 802,187,083 bibles worth of data per hour.&nbsp; Everything about everyone is out there.&nbsp; It is just a matter of mining the data in a way useful to who wants it.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="Mos Eisley, post: 3586337, member: 7235"] Big box stores are in cahoots with Apple. This is from training classes (data collection) I have taken at my big box cell provider, not a conspiracy theory. They (Home Depot for one) have extra gadgets in their ceiling to pinpoint your location down to a few inches. They know which item you might be looking at and for how long. This was billed to us as a way they can conveniently provide you with say, a coupon, for that item while you are looking at it. Probably less of a shock, but the same training class talked about how they already use your receipts to send coupons to your house so "it's not that different". We thought it was just creepy. Same class: Walmart collects 2.5 petabytes of unstructured data every [U]hour[/U]. That's 2,500,000,000,000,000 bytes. A byte is equal to a single letter. That's 802,187,083 bibles worth of data per hour. Everything about everyone is out there. It is just a matter of mining the data in a way useful to who wants it. [/QUOTE]

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