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You might not care if it's just soda, but what about when it's along every aisle in the super market? What about at a pharmacy? A super market app on your smar
by doesnt_know 8y ago
You might not care if it's just soda, but what about when it's along every aisle in the super market? What about at a pharmacy?
A super market app on your smartphone (which was installed for coupons) pops up a notification on Tuesday to remind you to get condoms. Based on your history it knows you pick them up on the way home (it's date night).
Your wife gets personalized discounts on sanitary pads on the 12th every month because it knows her cycle based on transaction history.
A pro-life organization purchases whole sale data from one of the analytics firms and harasses those who get the morning after pill.
At this point it's too late. As a consumer you have no choice, there is no competition left in the market place that doesn't do this.
If journalists make a big noise about it at some point the chains argue this subsidizes the price of basic produce which directly helps those on low income. Now the message is if you value privacy, you ~hate the poor~.
- morpheuskafka 8y agoPharmacies are protected by HIPAA. Cold drink purchases are not. Regulation is absolutely appropriate for the former, not for the latter.
- chrismeller 8y agoThe example here was the morning after pill, which is over the counter and therefore also not protected by any of the provisions of HIPAA (it only covers prescription drugs).
- reidjs 8y agoThis is a bit of a snowball fallacy no? Those horror stories while sounding plausible are not a necessary outcome of this. I suspect they’re not going to learn as much as you may think from cameras in the soda aisle. I think they could actually learn quite a bit more by just hiring smart people to stand around the store and come to their own conclusions about how to move more product.