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A comment on Facebook showed me my data is everywhere and I have absolute no control over it. Parent comment

Re:Facebook showed me my data is everywhere and I have absol... by lotu on Thursday April 11, 2019 @01:40PM (#19637116)
More to the point building up lists of people's phone numbers and physical/electronic addresses has been how direct marketing has been done for literally centuries. From wikipedia:

> In 1667, the English gardener, William Lucas, published a seed catalogue, which he mailed to his customers to inform them of his prices.

I just have trouble seeing how adding computers to this practice is the line that is too far for people.

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Re:Facebook showed me my data is everywhere and I have absol... by revvx on Thursday April 11, 2019 @01:51PM (#19637252)
For me: there's a world of difference between giving someone your private data and having third-party services (Scorecard, Quantcast, Criteo, Tapad, others) give it to them.

Just because I happen windowshop some store doesn't mean I gave them permission to ask for my info around. They're free to ask me. But that's just me.

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