They Know What You Do: Data Mining on the Internet

"TIME columnist Joel Stein learns just what data mining companies know about him. Turns out, it's a lot."

From http://www.time.com/time/printout/0,8816,2058114,00.html and http://yro.slashdot.org/story/11/03/11/200200/What-Data-Mining-Firms-Know-About-You ...
antsays...

>> ^srd:

Know that you can arm yourself (or your browser) to a large degree against tracking:
see http://donttrack.us, an info site by google competitor duckduckgo.com (scroll to the very bottom for a list of browser plugins) and selectout.org can set optout cookies - but this depends on the tracking companies to actually respect them.


http://www.networkadvertising.org/managing/opt_out.asp is another one.

Is it me or is the check all for http://selectout.org/optout/ not working?

GeeSussFreeKsays...

They had something like this at SXSW this year. The main read of it was, credit cards know 2 years in advance when someone is getting divorced by their spending habits. No word on what those purchases are, though.

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