Creepy on-line ad behavior

inthegarden
Mon, 08 May 2017 17:33:17 +0000

The scariest of all:

https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/technology/the-end-of-privacy-facebook-confirms-it-is-working-on-mind-reading-technology/ar-BBA2R3h?ocid=spartann

Using this stuff for marketing is bad enough but what will it take to jump from marketing to darker stuff? Hate to be extreme or pessimistic but, golly, the technology is so straight out of a dystopian novel, hard to not make that mental leap. In fact, I’ve been staying off my computer a lot more lately (nice to put my hands in good soil instead of a keyboard, actually) and now I’m glad I never got a smartphone or Facebook account. I’m sure the days are numbered, though, where it will even be possible to live without those (or whatever will replace them.)