China has wealth of data on what individuals are doing at a micro level

Re:China has wealth of data on what individuals are doing at... by lsmarigo on Wednesday January 11, 2017 @09:30PM (#13379392)

Don't know of anyway to avoid this other than using cash. The speed the sharing takes place is pretty insane as well, I've made purchases of a new brand of X item at my local grocery chain only to have amazon suggest the exact item to me on the same day.

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Re:China has wealth of data on what individuals are doing at... by wfunction on Thursday January 12, 2017 @04:14AM (#13380914)

This sounds almost unbelievable. How sure are you that it wasn't suggested for some other reason? And how did they know WHAT you bought, given credit card companies don't get that info?

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Re:China has wealth of data on what individuals are doing at... by simonh on Thursday January 12, 2017 @05:02AM (#13381128)

Agreed, I don't see how that's possible given the strict controls over personally identifiable card purchase data. Somebody would have to be breaking the law.

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Re:China has wealth of data on what individuals are doing at... by throwaway91111 on Saturday January 14, 2017 @04:50PM (#13400766)

It's entirely possible they were going off of browsing history + where I bought from, but I've 100% had experiences where I appeared to see retargeted ads for same day purchases in brick and mortar stores. Perhaps they were joining through my credit card number only, which is also associated with my online profile?

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Re:China has wealth of data on what individuals are doing at... by peteretep on Thursday January 12, 2017 @01:15AM (#13380169)

Blur by Abine, albeit for online purchases only.

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