Comment by Terr_
3 hours ago
Also the social-graph aspect.
For example, your aged mother's phone will get pinged within X meters of an urgent-care facility, or she'll do some web-search about "hip pain", and then all the adult children start getting ads about elderly-parent-care.
Or perhaps the pervy-panopticon decides some phone-on-wifi events look like adultery, and both suppposed spouses start getting ads for divorce lawyers, private investigators, or track-covering products. (Bonus if certain specialized "adult" toys are detected on Wifi or Bluetooth...)
Target was outing teen pregnancies back in the 2010s - https://pubadmin.institute/psychology-and-media/target-predi...
it's probably even more dystopian now with phone apps vacuuming up every last dreg.
Apparently there's some skepticism about the Target pregnancy story. https://medium.com/@colin.fraser/target-didnt-figure-out-a-t...