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Is the California DMV a private company?

• klmadfejno 6y ago
  Obviously not, but the point was snide humor. Do you really not believe there are private companies which sell personal data?
  • jp555 6y ago
    Sure, CC companies have been doing it since the 1950s. But only aggregate data has any value. Advertisers care a lot more about finding a large group of potential buyers than individuals. Something like the more data you have the less detail you know, because noise expands faster than signal.
    • klmadfejno 6y ago
      If you're implying that advertisers only want aggregate data to build a marketing strategy that requires leveraging the individualized data from ad platform holders like facebook, that feels like some serious cognizant dissonance about the meaning of privacy.