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A comment on FTC Settlement with Fertility-Tracking App for Facebook/Google SDK Data Sharing. Parent comment

Re:FTC Settlement with Fertility-Tracking App for Facebook/G... by A4ET8a8uTh0 on Wednesday January 13, 2021 @06:16PM (#25769359)
I did not hear about that one. It does sound interesting. Is there some sort of of study discussing it you could link?
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Re:FTC Settlement with Fertility-Tracking App for Facebook/G... by manicdee on Wednesday January 13, 2021 @07:02PM (#25769809)
For me the canonical example is this story in Forbes about a man who complained to Target about baby-product advertising directed at his teenage daughter.

https://www.forbes.com/sites/kashmirhill/2012/02/16/how-targ...

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Re:FTC Settlement with Fertility-Tracking App for Facebook/G... by josefx on Thursday January 14, 2021 @03:10AM (#25773541)
To spoil an important point of the article: They had a personalized Target account and the daughter had been openly buying pregnancy related products for weeks, her father was the only one not aware of it.
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