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Article #621676Re: It's not just Facebook. Thousands of companies are spying on you (CNN)
From: JimP
Date: Thu, 29 Mar 2018 14:30
Date: Thu, 29 Mar 2018 14:30
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On Thu, 29 Mar 2018 13:28:22 GMT, scott@slp53.sl.home (Scott Lurndal) wrote: >hanc...@bbs.cpcn.com writes: >>On Tuesday, March 27, 2018 at 4:20:24 PM UTC-4, 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. >> >>Unfortunately, today consumers are basically forced to take out >>a "loyalty card" and submit to tracking because the prices on many >>store items are jacked up without the loyalty card. >> > >Which is why I patronize a grocery store that doesn't discount >merchandise for loyalty card holders. I knew a guy years ago, bachelor, who would buy diapers for his neighbors using his loyalty card. He told me he did that to throw off the data miners.
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