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Just lie back on the couch. Let your thoughts roam free. Let your digital Candy Crusher tell the good doctor all about yourself . . . .

His (Ted Cruz’s–ed.) “Cruz Crew” mobile app is designed to gather detailed information from its users’ phones — tracking their physical movements and mining the names and contact information for friends who might want nothing to do with his campaign.

That information and more is then fed into a vast database containing details about nearly every adult in the United States to build psychological profiles that target individual voters with uncanny accuracy.

Cruz’s sophisticated analytics operation was heralded as key to his victory in Iowa earlier this month — the first proof, his campaign said, that the system has the potential to power him to the nomination.

You have been assimilated.

Afterthought:

Your smartphone is not your friend. It is your enemy, a tool of its corporate masters. Use it with caution.

Before you install an app, look at the permissions it requests. If they appear hinky in any way, don’t install that app.

And what the hell is the deal with Candy Crush anyway? Chess Checkers it’s not.

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