Stanford CIS

Why It’s Nearly Impossible To Stay Off Big Data’s Radar

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"Aleecia M. McDonald, a privacy researcher and resident fellow at the Stanford Center for Internet and Society says web ads invisibly assign a unique number to each computer to make a digital profile of you, noting your interests, what sites you visit, the news you read and the things you buy online. “All of this happens invisibly,” she says."

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