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October 26, 2011, 06:27:22 PM
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http://www.networkworld.com/community/node/79020

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Driving another stake in the heart of online anonymity, credit card companies want to tie your offline shopping history to your online life. How? By taking what they know about you, personal insight gleaned from your offline credit card purchases, and selling it to the highest bidder, so they can stalk you on the web and throw targeted online ads at you. Why? So they can profit at the expense of our privacy, of course.

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