Just out of curiosity, does anybody else get those 'suggested wall posts' on facebook that are some company using targeted advertising? I had one up this morning from a store I had been to 2 days ago for the first time in my life where I made a small purchase with my credit card. So if I'm to understand this correctly, the store took the name off my credit card, gave it to facebook, and facebook sends me a target ad on behalf of the company. That means that my credit card information (not the number, but the name I use on the credit card), has effectively been sold/bartered depending on the arrangement between the two corporations, so that my data can be sold to similar companies in some form of extremely lazy market research.
I'm sure it's legal, it just seems fucked up.
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