• @ItsComplicated@sh.itjust.works
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    493 months ago

    Samsung is also trying to make its ACR data more valuable for ad targeting, including through a deal signed in December with analytics firm Experian.

    This should add to their profits.

      • @PlantJam@lemmy.world
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        293 months ago

        Experian has a program where you connect your bank account and they monitor transactions for things that could improve your credit by a couple points. I’m sure they’re not also harvesting the rest of your data to use in their analytics, right?

        • @grue@lemmy.world
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          3 months ago

          That deserves to be its own headline. Something like “consumer electronics companies now conspiring with credit rating companies to surveil the public even more invasively.”