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Advertising companies know everything you do online. They have "behavioral profiles" far more detailed than anything the Stasi had. We are in fact under much mo
by fl3tch 15y ago
Advertising companies know everything you do online. They have "behavioral profiles" far more detailed than anything the Stasi had. We are in fact under much more surveillance, but the problem is not the government.
- msy 15y agoOh please, the advertising profiles I've seen are only a half-notch above pure entropy. They're about as accurate as the kind of rubbish you see from sentiment analysis on tweets.
- omellet 15y agoI think there's a large difference between political and business surveillance. The Stasi were used to monitor and control political thought, whereas Facebook just wants to make money off of me. What scares me is that a malevolent government could use their privately collected information in service of political suppression; they already do it for law enforcement and military purposes.