Wednesday, June 9, 2021

Exploiting Data

Social media are more and more invasive in using one's data. I designed a radically new belt buckle, and discussed it via e-mail with someone who had seen it. I described it as a belt with a ring. Within a day, I had ads popping up on social media offering me made-in-China items (like this one) which included a belt with a ring. OBSERVATION: My ring isn't like that. But are companies using one's data only to bounce back advertisements, or might they poach designs? Whether they do or not, it would seem possible.

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