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Obama re-election team buys up search terms

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Apr 072012
 

Intent on controlling as much of its corner of the internet as it can, the Obama administration is rapidly and aggressively buying up search terms and profiling capability in order to ferret out who’s who in the coming election. Be very clear: they want you.

Much of the technology used to target users based on profiling and searches happens to be from the same tool set being used by China to crack down on dissent there.

 Posted by Purtilo at 7:07 am on April 7, 2012

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