Re:Building a More Honest Internet
by JohnFen on Wednesday December 18, 2019 @04:16PM
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> I'm honestly curious: what has changed?
Big Data. Ads and cookies have not always been around, but they've been around for a long time now. Tracking as much as possible of what you do on the net and in real life, and combining that data into large databases for mining, is relatively new.
> Are you talking about government surveillance here?
I'm talking primarily about surveillance by marketers, although government surveillance is also a concern.
Big Data. Ads and cookies have not always been around, but they've been around for a long time now. Tracking as much as possible of what you do on the net and in real life, and combining that data into large databases for mining, is relatively new.
> Are you talking about government surveillance here?
I'm talking primarily about surveillance by marketers, although government surveillance is also a concern.