in the digital age, the information age, apparently if you program machines to do this, and do enough of it (large scale), it becomes something else, something much more respectable.

how does that work.

transition said:

in the digital age, the information age, apparently if you program machines to do this, and do enough of it (large scale), it becomes something else, something much more respectable.

how does that work.

You call it ‘data mining’, and it’s considered a legitimate business practice.

captain_spalding said:

transition said:

in the digital age, the information age, apparently if you program machines to do this, and do enough of it (large scale), it becomes something else, something much more respectable.

how does that work.

You call it ‘data mining’, and it’s considered a legitimate business practice.

yeah harvesting.

still lot of what I see, or presume invisible, is prowling and stalking.

not really the correct definition of stalking… which is more harassment based

Arts said:

not really the correct definition of stalking… which is more harassment based

think of the term in the softer sense

there’s plenty of examples that qualify for the general idea, the concept.