Bill Gates Knows What You Did Last Summer

theodp writes "Give Bill Gates your 'pictures, videos, documents, e-mail, instant messages, addresses, calendar dates/scheduling information (e.g., birthdays, anniversaries, appointments), voice mail, phone logs, RSS feeds, subscriptions, bookmarks, mail lists, project management features, computing device data, tasks and location data,' and he'll improve your 'quality of life.' That's the promise behind a patent issued Thursday to Bill Gates and his 20 co-inventors for 'Personal Data Mining', which Microsoft notes 'can include a monetization component' that 'could initiate an auction to sell information to the highest bidder.'"

Comments

Re:Isn't that called Google?

[ideivid]

i trust Google but i don't trust (and i never will) M.S.

Re:Privacy

[Anonymous Coward]

Social security was NEVER intended to be a person's sole source of retirement income. It was designed to be a small boost to what a person had saved themselves. Too bad there's so many lazy, entitled, socialists who decided playing and having fun was more important than working hard and making sure they could take care of themselves.

Don't try and pretend that these people are poor because they couldn't help it. They are poor because they chose to be, because they chose to not get good grades in school, because they decided working 40 hours a week was just too hard, because they chose to have sex before getting married and ended up with a kid or four, and so on and so on.

Social security is broken only because there are so many ignorant lazy people who actually believe it's supposed to be enough to live on.