New Government Database Tracking All Consumer Complaints to Make Us More Social?

The federal government approved a project to make a large and extensive database for consumer complaints. Bad publicity gives online retailers more SEO juice, Wikileaks show us how much people can care and slow moving regulators try to open up the consumer safety world. Will the government force us to be more social?

In 2008 the federal government approved a project to make a large and extensive database for consumer complaints. Bad publicity gives online retailers more SEO juice, like this one “…the more replies people post, the more negative business and the more hits and sales I get.” This week’s Wikileaks drama shows us that even the politically neutral care about government bribery, just as the U.S government wraps up a two year project for building a large consumer complaints database that will not include complaints against cars, tires, cosmetics, drugs, or FOOD.

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