> I can't help but wonder...how many real-world businesses could benefit from the same type of invasive tracking that online businesses seem to think they have a right to subject us with?
> For some reason, though, we don't allow that sort of privacy violation in our actual lives.
> However, most real-world businesses manage to do quite well even with our rude dismissals of their desire to track us.
Are you sure you're not being tracked? There are technologies like Prism[1] that allow stores to track people, where they go, how long they stay there, etc. On the lower-tech side, point cards[2] are also used to track purchasing habits.
Are you sure you're not being tracked? There are technologies like Prism[1] that allow stores to track people, where they go, how long they stay there, etc. On the lower-tech side, point cards[2] are also used to track purchasing habits.
[1] https://prism.com/
[2] http://consumerist.com/2012/02/17/target-figures-out-teen-gi...