On 16/09/13 12:23, Daniel Llewellyn wrote:
I think Facebook is probably the worst offender in terms of potential privacy issues in regards to targeted advertising. I'm listed on there as being Single, so Facebook ads have worked out that I obviously want to date an Asian woman or a woman in uniform along with several other dating-related adverts. Neither of these are necessarily true, and presuppose that I want to date at all.
"It is a truth universally acknowledged, that a single man in possession of a good fortune must be in want of a wife. However little known the feelings or views of such a man may be on his first entering a neighbourhood ..." - Jane Austen
Tony Wood d:-)
On 16 September 2013 10:44, Gordon Scott <gor...@gscott.co.uk <mailto:gor...@gscott.co.uk>> wrote: On Sun, 2013-09-15 at 21:54 +0100, Daniel Llewellyn wrote: > And the reason people refer to email as like a postcard as opposed to > a letter One of the arguments for encryption of email was that if one wouldn't post a letter without putting it in an envelope, why do we send emails without something similar. The catch with encrypting e-mail, of course, is that it pretty much guarantees that certain organisations will immediately start taking a strong interest in it. There are several big nuisance factors of 'targeted' advertising. It presumes that mail or searches one send or does mention subjects of interest to me, rather than to some second or third party; It may presume that keywords in emails are of interest to me, when those emails are spam. They presume that ones interest is still extant. Yes, my mileage does vary :-) Gordon. -- Please post to: Hampshire@mailman.lug.org.uk <mailto:Hampshire@mailman.lug.org.uk> Web Interface: https://mailman.lug.org.uk/mailman/listinfo/hampshire LUG URL: http://www.hantslug.org.uk -------------------------------------------------------------- -- Daniel Llewellyn
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