Forbes: How Target Figured Out a Girl Was Pregnant Before Her Father Did

[bigwakes]

Maybe cash is not so inconvenient after all!

http://www.forbes.co...her-father-did/

Edited February 23, 2012 by bigwakes

[MacGyver]

Yeah, look at the coupons from Target the next time they come in the mail. They're custom printing per customer at this point - not just the pregnant ones. I flipped through them the other day before tossing them in the recycle bin with all the other junk mail. Page for page, it was products my wife buys.

Creepy as it is, I applaud them for actually doing something useful with all that data they collect.

[QuietDan]

This also means that you don't have to tell the Feds that you own guns, because Commerce already knows. If you buy gun stuff at Cabelas, or Amazon (well, Midway USA but they ASSUME you have guns), then they can make a good guess of how many and what caliber. If the Feds collected data on us the way Commerce collects data on us, there'd be a Second American Revolution. Well, there might be a Second American Revolution anyway, but that's another post.

[mcurrier]

I buy TONS of stuff at Am az on dot kom. About a month ago several of the items I had looked at or are in my shopping cart or wish list started popping up in Am az on display ads on the right side, or left side, or top or bottom of EVERY website that I went to.

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