A Virtual You Lives At Google & Other Techs

[Yooper]

Well, isn't this special....

It’s because inside of a Google server or a Facebook server is a little voodoo doll, avatar-like version of you. Like a model of you. And I don’t have to listen to your conversations because I’ve accumulated all the …clicks and likes you’ve ever made, and it makes this voodoo doll act more and more like you. All I have to do is simulate what conversation the voodoo doll is having, and I know....

Click on over to read the entire article and links to the presentation the above quote has been snipped from (a 1-hour tech talk which has been posted on Youtube).

Link: "Your phone isn’t really spying on your conversations—the truth might be even creepier"

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[Yooper]

And let's add this one to the OP.

Depending on how much you shop, watch and read with Amazon, the e-commerce behemoth may know more about you than any other company on earth.

Link: "What Amazon knows about you"

In addition to a presentation about Amazon there are links at the end for similar articles on what Google, Facebook, and Tesla know about you.

Better informed is, well, better informed.

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[GURPS]

Amazon <---> Google / Facebook


I end up with targeted adds on my face book feed for something I just bought on Amazon


Come on Amazon, Try to keep up, I just purchased that widget

 

[vraiblonde]

I end up with targeted adds on my face book feed for something I just bought on Amazon


Come on Amazon, Try to keep up, I just purchased that widget

My thoughts exactly. Why are they pushing ads to me for something I just bought?

 

[gemma_rae]

My thoughts exactly. Why are they pushing ads to me for something I just bought?

I think because the ordering page is (supposed to be) secure, they don't know if you actually purchased it or not. That's my guess at least.

 

[GWguy]

Amazon <---> Google / Facebook


I end up with targeted adds on my face book feed for something I just bought on Amazon


Come on Amazon, Try to keep up, I just purchased that widget

It's a reminder. They want you to buy it again. See that button next to the item, "Buy Again" ?