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Re:I Got Access to My Secret Consumer Score by teh_infallible on Monday November 04, 2019 @01:21PM (#21444600)
“Targeted advertising” is just a euphemism for the secretive creation and sale of dossiers on unwitting Internet users. It should already be illegal under existing laws.
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Re:I Got Access to My Secret Consumer Score by neodymiumphish on Monday November 04, 2019 @03:31PM (#21446155)
In most cases, this isn't true. The dossiers and maintained very closely by Facebook, Google, etc in order to leverage their knowledge on a target to produce the most effective targeted ads. If they sold the dossiers, they would lose the continued revenue.
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