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 <gordon@???
> <mailto:gordon@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.
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