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"Details of a person's face is marketable data". Okay, it's not that I don't believe you, but what do they do with that data? How does it help? Unless you're m

• labcomputer 4y ago
  Uniquely and reliably track a single individual’s web browsing habits. Is that not the holy grail of adtech?
• orls 4y ago
  People who fit into <some racial/ethnic/age/gender bucket> spend more time looking at <x products>, fed to advertisers who can tie it to swathes of your other online activity Even if it’s _theoretically_ coarse data/bucketing, that adds up to a lot of data to help deanonymization and targeting. Even if that’s done in the spirit of “just for ads”, it’s not a big leap to political targeting etc, and with the right data leaks, potentially even actual harassment.
• rvba 4y ago
  Some bad actor would check out what is in your apartment and then market to you. Say they see you have legos, they market legos. Or they see what you have (say a gun) so they rob you. Or they track your habits. We noticed your apartment is dirty/messy - pay us a ransom or we post on linkedin or call CPS. Or use our cleaning service. Also I bet you have to walk fully dressed when browsing (especially women) and you need to shave, or your social score drops. Ah and will you know if the website ever stopped watching? Is it watching you (and recording) having sex?
• jerojero 4y ago
  Knowing exactly where the user is looking is pretty good data I would say. "User looked at the buy button 5 times in the session but they did not buy" and so on.