Re:The privacy wars are about to get a whole lot worse
by TerminalJunkie on Wednesday September 07, 2016 @03:29PM
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NY Times had an article in 2013 about this very thing. [1] But the amazing thing was, when users/customers found out that they were being tracked and the level of detail found in the tracking methods, some of them complained. They were quoted as saying "creepy", and "way over the line."
If users knew how much of their entire lives could be pieced together by browser tracking, cookies, and the same techniques that advertisement companies use to target groups of people, I feel that they would say the same thing.
[1] http://www.nytimes.com/2013/07/15/business/attention-shopper...
Re:The privacy wars are about to get a whole lot worse
by Freak_NL on Wednesday September 07, 2016 @03:40PM
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The practice of tracking your location in a store by means of wifi and bluetooth connection signals has actually been deemed illegal by a judge in the Netherlands. There is some hope in legislation catching up with technology in that respect.
In the country I live it's also very popular for every store to have their own plastic card you gather points on at every purchase (e.g. for discounts or freebies). This is an easy way of matching your purchases with all the other personal information they gather.