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I would point you to the insurance companies deciding on premiums based on people’s Amazon purchases as an indicator of risk. There’s plenty of potential for long-term abuse of your profiling data. Nobody cares about you in a specific way, but the algorithms can be designed to target people “like you” and hurt YOU in a very specific manner.
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