Obama reminds us that Tech companies gather Government information in the first place

Within his speech, he effectively threw the U.S. tech industry under the bus by reminding everyone companies in the private sector -- not the government -- collects its electronic information in the first place.
"Corporations of all shapes and sizes track what you buy, store and analyze our data, and use it for commercial purposes," the president said. "That's how those targeted ads pop up on your computer and your smartphone periodically."
I have to wonder how big a grimace that statement drew from Google CEO Larry Page or Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg, whose companies collect gobs of that kind of information.
What the president said in that quote above isn't new, of course.
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Obama throws tech companies under the bus