Forget privacy: you're terrible at targeting anyway
I don't mind letting your programs see my private data as long as I get something useful in exchange. But that's not what happens. A forme...
Hasnain says:
This was a very interesting read which discussed both privacy and ad targeting.
It talks about how the tracking ecosystem works; how a lot of it can be done better with heuristics and less ML (which is opaque and not as useful - though there are killer applications for ML like image processing).
it also goes into what *good* recommendations look like; and how they're often good without being personalized. And ends on a nice tangent about Netflix and their $1M prize for recommendation algorithms; and how that was not needed by the end.
Posted on 2019-02-02T22:18:44+0000