Karen Hobert's Connecting Dots: Not really so funny

Check the full post for an embedded Stephen Colbert video reality check

So again, if Google knows all of this it then shouldn't it d be able to help us get rid of it? Granted we might not be able to delete every shred of information, but getting to the bulk of it is a good start.
With all its irony this bit by Stephen Colbert makes the point very eloquently:

Of course, there is one other answer. Google and Facebook could stop invasively data-mining and selling our private lives to the highest bidder. But that would be asking them to change who they are. And that's not fair.

Karen Hobert's Connecting Dots: Not really so funny