You Are Being Hunted

Google is in the news (again) for creepy surveillance practices.  Google, AP reported, is tracking your physical whereabouts even after you tell them to shut Location History off.  Now Bloomberg reports they bought data about Mastercard transactions to link online ads with in-store purchases.  These make for interesting stories, but the real story, not being discussed, is the online-physical advertising systems engineered by Google and Apple.

Over the last few years, there’s been a quiet revolution in retail marketing empowering advertisers to track consumers in physical space.  Retailers have realized that, contrary to popular misconceptions, most retail purchases are still made in brick-and-mortar stores - not the online world of Amazon and Walmart.  The capacity to track each of us in the physical world offers an untapped market for high-tech advertising.  Google previously called this the Physical Web, a new Internet of Things frontier that melds the online and offline worlds into one.

You can read the rest @
https://www.counterpunch.org/2018/09/06/google-and-apples-systems-to-track-you-in-person-what-the-media-isnt-telling-you/

This reminds me of a passage in the Bible:

And the merchants of the earth shall weep and mourn over her; for no man buyeth their merchandise any more:
The merchandise of gold, and silver, and precious stones, and of pearls, and fine linen, and purple, and silk, and scarlet, and all thyine wood, and all manner vessels of ivory, and all manner vessels of most precious wood, and of brass, and iron, and marble,
And cinnamon, and odours, and ointments, and frankincense, and wine, and oil, and fine flour, and wheat, and beasts, and sheep, and horses, and chariots, and slaves, and souls of men.

Revelation 18:11-13 KJV

Make no mistake - it is your souls that Google and their ilk are after. And they seem to be doing a VERY thorough job of capturing them.

Cui bono? [Hint: They're not working for G-d.]