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Data miners pay for any and all profiling data that they can add to their panopticon. All the better to send you targeted ads.
by kevin_thibedeau 3y ago
Data miners pay for any and all profiling data that they can add to their panopticon. All the better to send you targeted ads.
- pierat 3y agoIf you think its JUST ads, boy, do I have a bridge to sell you. 1. Data sold to Natsec/FBI/CIA/NSA etc 2. Data sold to IRS 3. Data sold to state tax authority 4. Data sold to police agencies 5. Data sold to *churches* ( https://www.aclu.org/news/privacy-technology/catholic-group-buying-data-to-out-gay-priests ) "If you give me six datapoints generated by the devices of the most honest of men, I will find something in them which will hang him." ... to bastardize Cardinal Richelieu's quote
- ta988 3y agoAnd everybody working for ad companies is complicit.