Therein lies the problem. It is not like company decides one day to spy on people’s habits (visited sites, ads clicked, things purchased, etc), it happens gradually and one day the line is crossed. The common question each company asks is, how do we increase our revenue?; what data can we utilize to improve customer retention; what other customer segments can we tap into? This goes on gradually, and one day we are collecting large datasets with a lot of information about customers that can tell the company how to “manipulate” them into more purchases and spendings. I am not saying it is spying, but if that data are used by the government branches to use against individuals, companies are powerless in most cases. 🐶🐾🫡
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Indeed! Not the starting incentive matters, but the power it can give...
NgU > savings > privacy > freedom tech!!!
It’s def. a ladder and people get there when they need to 😊
You are already giving them your name and shipping address and email. There's not much more useful information one can give other than cross-site cookie tracking to retarget you for some product upsells or whatnot. But marketing never really looks at individuals, it is always done in bulk and via tools that automate all of that.
I know that, but when you seat on a large dataset of customer’s (individual) data, you can derive and guess a lot of things about them. It’s all about who gets the access to that data. Security is another problem, and who has the access. Companies usually treat security as something they must do, and as part of their culture, as it should be 🐶🐾🫡