Tech recommendations can reveal more about us than we know ourselves - but how and why does this happen?
  • shinjiikarus@mylem.euEnglish
    14·
    11 months ago

    Has this story ever been confirmed by Target directly? As this happened in America and her father was outraged about it, it would have been awfully convenient, to “blame” the algorithm for “discovering”, she was pregnant. It takes quite a data analyst to figure out trends before someone even knows they are pregnant. It doesn’t take a genius to figure out a pattern for someone if they know they are pregnant and are just hiding it from their dad.

    • what_is_a_name@lemmy.world
      17·
      11 months ago

      Yes. It’s many years in my past, but this was confirmed. Target still does their targeting but now scatter unrelated items in the ads to hide what they know.