Date published:
December 7, 2015
Planning to do some online holiday shopping? LSA Ph.D. student Darren Stevenson explains how advertisers get and use your personal data to predict what you’ll buy—and, sometimes, even what you’ll pay.
You finally dug out the snow pants and scarves, paired the stray gloves and mittens, and found your son’s snow boots that are at least two sizes too small. The next time you’re at your computer, you type “boys winter boots” into a search engine and scan through dozens of websites that probably sell exactly what you’re looking for. Read more » about Buy Buy Privacy
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This article by Center for Internet and Society originally appeared on cyberlaw.stanford.edu on December 09, 2015 at 12:07AM
