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Internet & Society: The Technologies and Politics of Control (Spring 2019)

“How Companies Learn Your Secrets” by Charles Duhigg, New York Times (2012).

Though this article is from 2012, it still demonstrates advertisers’ incredible degree of sophistication in data analysis. How should we think about the line between helpful and creepy in data-driven advertising? What guidelines or controls should be placed on experiments conducted by advertisers?