I responded to Clarissa’s post because some things that she did, such as entering fake personal data, have become part of our daily lives. In the past child predators and kidnappers would want to know your name so they could pretend to know who you are and get you into their van or house. Now marketers and companies use your name to create a false sense of intimacy so they can get you into their stores, website and/or checkout counter. The occult could use your birthday and birth time to see your past and future, which is basically what the algorithms are, but they seem more insidious because they also use that data to manipulate your future decisions, which I suppose the occult could do as well, but the algorithms are everywhere and hard to ignore and so commonplace that they are sometimes unnoticeable.