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>Before Facebook tracking it was old biddy tracking. Through gossip everyone knew pretty much everyone's business.

As already noted the difference in scale, but obviously if you didn't like what the old biddies tracked about you in your small town you could move to a new one and start over - you can't with the global surveillance system.

finally it should be obvious that not everyone lived in a small enough town that the old biddy network was actually useful for tracking you.




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