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the-dude on Aug 16, 2021 | parent | context | favorite | on: A Woman Hid Her Pregnancy from Big Data (2014)

I do see a bit of similarity, however the Target case includes presenting these ads to someone else, a component your anecdata misses.

But I don't see the logic. If you are not claiming it must be true, what are you claiming?

vmception on Aug 16, 2021 [–]

That it sounds similar to what's happened the rest of the decade. I didn't make a conclusion aside from that observation and there is no claim, I know "who does that online anymore we're supposed to masquerade every response as an unwavering confrontation", I contributed because its a conversation, crazy right

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