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		butler14 on June 12, 2015 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Snowden Document Search there's an unnervingly high degree of overlap between spying and digital marketing 'selectors' instead of 'attributes', 'targets' instead of 'users/audiences'... and both are terrible at using PowerPoint the spies just have a great deal more (illegally obtained) data to play with.

crisnoble on June 12, 2015 [–]

And perhaps unwittingly, digital marketing, their databases of users and tags, is helping to making the spying possible.

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