• MonkeMischief@lemmy.today
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    5 months ago

    I think we need to do some really difficult investigations that essentially can show concrete proof of how this affects people:

    "See you were looking up vacations and insurance right? Well you signed up to your car’s connected service, you have an Alexa in your house, and a smart TV and a fridge all talking to each other…and they all worked together to put together a profile of how much you make and how old you are and everything else…

    …so your neighbor looked up the same insurance and vacations and is paying about $200 less for the exact same of each, because they use AdBlock and don’t allow spy devices in their house."

    And then finish with the real kicker:

    “I know you didn’t ask to participate, but we just scraped all this information about you off the Internet. We had to ask your neighbor for permission though.”