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If people knew the amount of info collected and sold they would abandon everything. Even 7 months before your born, someone has a profile on you. What CA did l
by sumoboy 9y ago
If people knew the amount of info collected and sold they would abandon everything. Even 7 months before your born, someone has a profile on you. What CA did leveraging data for targeting is just the beginning, ML applied to data in the future will make what CA did look like amateur hour.
Like others have said with elections, this all started long ago with social, CA just happened to do it better this time. Even without them, sophisticated targeting can still be developed regardless, so it's just a matter of money and audience reach.
- confounded 9y ago> ..CA just happened to do it better this time. Even without them, sophisticated targeting can still be developed regardless... I think the thing to take away from all this is that people don’t like it. Our societies have democratic principles; governments can (and have a duty to) prevent sophisticated targeting from non-consensual data collection and if it’s not what people want. You can make an argument that it is what people really want because they’re too desperate, ignorant or subjugated to consider anything else, so the serfs must be farmed. Let’s find out!
- ChicagoBoy11 9y agoNot so sure. Remember when the Newsfeed came out? The NYT similarly thought people really did not like it. Facebook certainly didn't get rid of it and we certainly stopped caring. http://www.nytimes.com/2006/09/10/fashion/10FACE.html http://www.nytimes.com/2006/09/10/fashion/10FACE.html
- joering2 9y agoWhich part of 64,000 users accepted App connection but their friends been exploited to the tune of 50,000,000 you don't understand??
- 0xcafecafe 9y agoWhile you make a valid point, my pet peeve of late has been people using "your" in place of "you're" since it makes me reread the sentence.