Whistleblower Edward Snowden warned in Moscow last week that unchecked collection and cross-referencing of digital data, from email messages to mobile phone mast signals, had made it easier to analyse, predict and influence human behaviour.
He told German weekly magazine Stern: "By linking data and analysing it, I don't just know when you went to bed, I also know with whom."
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