August 11, 2010
Behavioural Targeting
You are giving off a lot of personal information online. Signing up may ask for your name, zip code, among other info, but big software companies such as Microsoft know more information thank you think they do. For example, they know exactly when you check your inbox, and the average monthly income of your neighborhood. [...]
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July 29, 2010
Behavioural Targeting
A kind of customer profiling in online firms is called behavioral targeting. This method uses 3rd party cookies to know the browsing behavior of users. This method is quite effective, but some concerned citizens are calling it an invasion of privacy. This concern is even more prevalent with the cooperation of Internet service providers (ISPs), [...]
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