What Do Google, Facebook, and Email Track About You?

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jedishrfu said:
A recent HackerNoon articles provides links to GOOGLE pages that show what they track about you and how:
The truth is likely to be far bigger and deeper in scope and capability. I really do believe these data and connecting marketing companies know us better than we know ourselves. That is not just a casual saying. Those thinking their own data hasn't already been used to influence them are mistaken. Marketing and influence are not always blunt tools, but built in the subconscious over time.
 
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Greg Bernhardt said:
The truth is likely to be far bigger and deeper in scope and capability. I really do believe these data and connecting marketing companies know us better than we know ourselves. That is not just a casual saying. Those thinking their own data hasn't already been used to influence them are mistaken. Marketing and influence are not always blunt tools, but built in the subconscious over time.

No kidding. Years ago the credit card companies had similar aspirations where they could predict the color of the clothes you buy based on the UPC of products you bought. ML will bring us to the brink of despair and the true loss of privacy in its most intimate form unless we totally disconnect from the world.
 
gmax137 said:
When something is "free," it isn't the product. You are.

Unfortunately, that doesn't prevent vendors you spend with from selling your info. Everyone seems to be begging for phone#, email, etc...