Re: It's not just Facebook. Thousands of companies are spying on you (CNN)

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From: Bob Eager
Date: Tue, 27 Mar 2018 21:09

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On Tue, 27 Mar 2018 15:19:54 -0500, JimP wrote:

> On Tue, 27 Mar 2018 12:46:29 -0700 (PDT), hanc...@bbs.cpcn.com wrote:
> 
>>excerpt from CNN report
>>
>>For every article about Facebook's creepy stalker behavior, thousands of
>>other companies are breathing a collective sigh of relief that it's
>>Facebook and not them in the spotlight. Because while Facebook is one of
>>the biggest players in this space, there are thousands of other
>>companies that spy on and manipulate us for profit. Harvard Business
>>School professor Shoshana Zuboff calls it "surveillance capitalism." And
>>as
> 
> Yes, the loyalty cards for stores that give a discount or email coupons.

The only one I had was a Nectar card, and I junked that when they linked 
up with the Daily Mail.

(for leftpondians, the Daily Mail is a right-wing newspaper which would 
probably be too far right for Trump; its owner supported Hitler in the 
1930s, and his descendant still owns it)



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