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April 17th 2012

How Companies Learn Your Secrets: NY Times

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safranx:

Every time you go shopping, you share intimate details about your consumption patterns with retailers. And many of those retailers are studying those details to figure out what you like, what you need, and which coupons are most likely to make you happy. Target, for example, has figured out how to data-mine its way into your womb, to figure out whether you have a baby on the way long before you need to start buying diapers. Via Yahoo Article: How Target Figured Out A Teen Girl Was Pregnant Before Her Father Did 

So creepy…

Posted at 8:17pm and tagged with: tech, tehcnology, data, analytics, shopping,.

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    HOLY !! .. I ain’t buying stuff anymore ! :P
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    I literally just wrote a paper on this exact article like 2 weeks ago.
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