Here is an interesting article from The Register on data mining and how it can be used for commercial and government purposes.
“I have nothing to hide” – or the Sainsbury’s Lesson
How frightened would you be if you were secretly planning to get pregnant, without telling your husband, and discovered that someone had written to him telling him about it? Or, put the other way, how would you feel if you discovered your wife was pregnant only when someone dropped you a letter?

