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What you are scared of is some hypothetical situation that there so-far is no evidence it could or would happen in the future? When you do web searches, your p
by smspence 15y ago
What you are scared of is some hypothetical situation that there so-far is no evidence it could or would happen in the future? When you do web searches, your personal emails start popping up within the results? That actually happens, or is going to happen? When?
- drhayes9 15y agoRelevant ads outed a gay teen on Facebook: http://unicornbooty.com/blog/2012/01/11/gay-teen-inadvertently-outed-by-facebook-targeted-ads/ http://unicornbooty.com/blog/2012/01/11/gay-teen-inadvertent... Maybe not widespread, but definitely not entirely hypothetical.
- smspence 15y agoI'm not sure what this has to do with my question. What you linked to has nothing to do with either Google or email.
- drhayes9 15y ago>What you are scared of is some hypothetical situation that there so-far is no evidence it could happen Ecio78 outlined a scenario in which relevance targeting "outed" him in a way he didn't want. I'm analogizing Facebook relevance ads with Gmail and search ads. I didn't think Ecio78 was saying that emails are going to pop up explictly, only that Google would present information that is relevant to him in a situation where he didn't want that relevant information.