https://padlet.com/lzweia1/agvomxl8stbv Made with magic en-us 2017-03-07 15:13:03 UTC 2018-03-05 16:52:15 UTC hello@padlet.com https://padlet.com/lzweia1/agvomxl8stbv/wish/158367884 Some firms like Rapleaf are using your social media information to create customer profiles. If companies want to know more about their clients they can check one of many social networks. For example, in the coming years your credit card interest rates could increase based of a tweet that said you just got laid off. 

]]> 2017-03-07 15:18:47 UTC https://padlet.com/lzweia1/agvomxl8stbv/wish/158367884 https://padlet.com/lzweia1/agvomxl8stbv/wish/158367977 New apps and services make it very easy to be tracked using a device's location feature. Several social networks such as Gowalla are targeted toward sharing your whereabouts with others. Many apps of today make use of our location information. Facebook is adding a feature in the summer that will make location sharing as easy as updating your status. This can be the cause of some major privacy issues which is why the topic made its way to Congress. Privacy advocates are actively pushing for lawmakers to limit how much advertisers can track users of these location-oriented services.]]> 2017-03-07 15:18:59 UTC https://padlet.com/lzweia1/agvomxl8stbv/wish/158367977 https://padlet.com/lzweia1/agvomxl8stbv/wish/158368229 The discussion of technology involving advertisers such as Google and Yahoo tracking users online and displaying ads based on their previous browsing history. They can only track you from site to site if their company delivers ads to the site you are on. For example, DoubleClick ad exchange is a company that does so.]]> 2017-03-07 15:19:29 UTC https://padlet.com/lzweia1/agvomxl8stbv/wish/158368229 lzweia1 https://padlet.com/lzweia1/agvomxl8stbv/wish/158368256 There are companies that provide you with coupons if you broadcast your location. However, you have to consider that these companies will track you even if you go to places you didn't want people to know you go.  So you have to consider if people would judge you for going to the places you go too.]]> 2017-03-07 15:19:32 UTC https://padlet.com/lzweia1/agvomxl8stbv/wish/158368256 https://padlet.com/lzweia1/agvomxl8stbv/wish/158368415 Social media networks like Facebook may alter their user's privacy setting, to make it less private to allow more business companies to customize their ads and business outputs to be more unique to the user. There has been many cases where lawsuits have been filed against social media networks where a change in privacy settings or lack of privacy settings lead to users sharing unwanted information to the public. 

]]> 2017-03-07 15:19:51 UTC https://padlet.com/lzweia1/agvomxl8stbv/wish/158368415 https://padlet.com/lzweia1/agvomxl8stbv/wish/158369649 Privacy activists believe that advertisers are going too far and unfairly tracking people in which they profit from. The information the are retrieving is without consent. A company "Better Advertising" offers a plug-in that can alert you of hidden trackers., Chrome supports this add-on. ]]> 2017-03-07 15:22:17 UTC https://padlet.com/lzweia1/agvomxl8stbv/wish/158369649 lzweia1 https://padlet.com/lzweia1/agvomxl8stbv/wish/158371227 Advertisement companies are now tracking your location and sending you advertisements for places that you are going too. These companies also track where you have been the most and send you ads for them. This is the result of companies wanting to reach possible costumers as they consider their purchase.  ]]> 2017-03-07 15:25:03 UTC https://padlet.com/lzweia1/agvomxl8stbv/wish/158371227 https://padlet.com/lzweia1/agvomxl8stbv/wish/158372079 Advertising companies can create connections on your offline life and your online life by using your online data. Companies such as BlueKai work with advertisers to advertise to you. They use non personal information like age range, demographics, and income to determine how to advertise to you. These connections between offline and online are made with your email address that you provide an online retailer. Next, the company can search up your interest and tailor advertisements to you. ]]> 2017-03-07 15:27:00 UTC https://padlet.com/lzweia1/agvomxl8stbv/wish/158372079