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Re:Mark Zuckerberg's Facebook hearing was a sham by ForHackernews on Wednesday April 11, 2018 @12:39PM (#16812868)
I really doubt this is true, given how poorly targeted advertising performs, how much stuff credit-reporting agencies get wrong, and how much stuff intelligence services miss.

I'm sure they have a lot of data, but like anyone else, it's dirty data, and it's difficult to draw meaningful conclusions from it.

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Re:Mark Zuckerberg's Facebook hearing was a sham by specialist on Wednesday April 11, 2018 @01:58PM (#16813685)
What measure of proof do you require?

PS- One of Seisent's selling points was helping to solve cold cases. The successful example I remember was matching MOs from a set of crimes in multiple areas and then identifying all the persons matching the profile who could also be in those areas at those times.

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Re:Mark Zuckerberg's Facebook hearing was a sham by ForHackernews on Wednesday April 11, 2018 @05:33PM (#16815923)
> What measure of proof do you require?

How about a single targeted advert for a product I want to buy? (Note: products I already bought and then start seeing tons of advertisements for don't count)

> PS- One of Seisent's selling points was helping to solve cold cases.

Did it actually help solve those cases? I haven't heard of any dramatic drops in unsolved murders, or huge numbers of cold cases being closed.

If they really do "effectively know everything about everybody", they're keeping damn quiet about it.

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