On Mon, 2013-09-16 at 12:23 +0100, 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.
I get similar to those, but I'm not on Facebook or Twitter, or indeed most other 'social networking' sites. I suspect those adds target any presumed male. I can't tell how good their content targeting is. But there is an example of where privacy might be as issue. Could 'alternatively leaning' targeted advertising cause embarrassment or worse. I guess we've all used search terms that with hindsight can be interpreted other than we plan. I run used to run a website about wildlife for which I often research "Animals", "wildlife" and so on. I used to have to do a _lot_ of post filtering on some searches to exclude inappropriate matches. Gordon. -- Please post to: Hampshire@mailman.lug.org.uk Web Interface: https://mailman.lug.org.uk/mailman/listinfo/hampshire LUG URL: http://www.hantslug.org.uk --------------------------------------------------------------
