Minority Reports Ads

[80watts]

During the movie Minority Report the main character is strolling through a mall, he doesn't want to be noticed; but advertisements start to blaze ads at him as he goes by. Advertisements now use logarithms to place ads on your computer as you surf the net or on social media.

Are those ads you see, what you surf on the web?

Should this be allowed, is it an invasion of your what you think you privacy is?

 

[masterblaster]

During the movie Minority Report the main character is strolling through a mall, he doesn't want to be noticed; but advertisements start to blaze ads at him as he goes by. Advertisements now use logarithms to place ads on your computer as you surf the net or on social media.

Are those ads you see, what you surf on the web?

Should this be allowed, is it an invasion of your what you think you privacy is?

I'm sure you meant algorithms.

 

[westwoody]

Algoriths track everything you click on and your location.

Yeah it is an invasion.

Potentially your Apple phone can predict if you will be near a retail outlet for an item or service you recently looked at on facebook. There was quite a fuss a few years ago when hackers found geolocating trackers in iPhones. Imagine you are in your car with the wife and kids and your car announces you are only two blocks from that rub'n'tug you googled yesterday!

 

[sevenofnine]

im amazed at how far the reach is,


I mean I google something,
and in some unrelated news page that I look at, not signed in or registered, ads pop up relating to my google search,
my info must be shared world wide, and im given related content.

its a commercial dam world.
I think there are several search engines duck duck go or another, that might not store info or cookies or share it,

I don't like it because maybe I want to see some other advertising, that same ad they target me personally with, won't go away,

 

[80watts]

my answear to the spellling mistake is :doh:

 

[johnnydepth]

im amazed at how far the reach is,


I mean I google something,
and in some unrelated news page that I look at, not signed in or registered, ads pop up relating to my google search,
my info must be shared world wide, and im given related content.

its a commercial dam world.
I think there are several search engines duck duck go or another, that might not store info or cookies or share it,

I don't like it because maybe I want to see some other advertising, that same ad they target me personally with, won't go away,

If you go into your settings and wipe cookies and history the ads should go away until you search for something again.
Privacy is a thing of the past. I look at it this way, if they want to spy on me go ahead; they're going to see some pretty disgusting things.

Recently had a conversation with some people about privacy issues. Don't know if this is going on in other cities in Canada (probably is) but if you look around Winnipeg the government has been installing surveillance cameras all over the city. No mention of it in the news and most people probably aren't even aware of them.
George Orwell must have been a seer.

 

[Abbott_]

^^^
You and your cookies should make a break-for-it .

 

[FreeG]

^^ Cambodia? A-mazing place.... Definitely bucket-list worthy!

You can download what Facebook and Google know about you. Apparently, Google's database on you is MASSIVE, even if you delete your cookies (haven't looked myself, just going off another article I read). Facebook is smaller but still huge. Its crazy, but hopefully with Zuckerburg's testimonials and increased publicity (ironically...), privacy will take more prevalence and people will take more appropriate precautions and know what questions to ask. Not today or this month, but hopefully w/in a few years (before Big Brother/Big Data over-takes).