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0 pointsweinzierl8y ago0 comments

> Amazon doesn't have a million photos of me,

Yes, but what good are they to make you buy stuff or otherwise spend money?

> hourly location data,

Location data is a commodity nowadays, if Amazon want's your locations data, it can have it.

> and lots of other things freely

Your messages, which are probably much more useful than your photos and your location, but what else?

My point is that Amazon's data is much more valuable, but I'm neither in advertising nor data brokerage so I might as well be wrong.

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user404d8y ago· 1 in thread

You're assuming that targeting people's finances is the best way to leverage the data collected. In Facebook's case, they are using it to literally assert influence over masses of people. When other groups get access to that same data, then they too can use that data to assert influence because that's literally what the platform has been developed into (not implying this was Facebook's intent all along).

I think these groups targeting your pocket book may have the most immediate effect on your person -- however -- I don't think it's the scariest or most malicious outcome.

weinzierlOP8y ago

That's a good point, actually.

Xeoncross8y ago

> what good are they to make you buy stuff

Climate, activities, fashion, lifestyle, branding, etc... can all be determined from photos. Computers are getting better at this, just look at Amazon's fashion camera, the "Echo Look" that recommends clothing.

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