Law enforcement is not alone in watching you

Earlier this week I commented on the number of times law enforcement agencies request information from cell phone companies. However, law enforcement agencies are not the only people interested in us.  Much more interested in us are vendors.  By knowing more about us they hope to sell more to us.  For example, through our cell phones vendors can learn what we buy, where and when we buy it, how much money we have in the bank, whom we text and e-mail, what Web sites we visit, how and where we travel, what time we go to sleep and wake up, and a host of our other activities.

I wonder how much money cell phone companies earn by selling information.  I also wonder what Winston Smith would have to say about the matter.