QUESTION
What is being discussed regarding tracking consumer behavior and surveillance technology?
2:49:58
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The council member and executive director are discussing how vendors sell software that can track consumer behavior, even for products that are not purchased.
- They give the example of tracking when someone stops in front of a product but decides not to buy it
- The council member acknowledges that this type of tracking is widespread, happening on smartphones and credit card purchases
- The council member seems resigned that this is the reality of the world we live in now, whether people like it or not
Robert Holden
2:49:58
Well, some people feel Google does that now.
2:50:00
I mean, most you use your credit card.
2:50:02
What happens?
2:50:03
You get a you get you buy something and you get
Albert Fox Cahn
2:50:06
what I'm talking about the product.
Robert Holden
2:50:07
Some of the other is.
Albert Fox Cahn
2:50:08
I'm talking about the product you stop in front of, you think about, you decide, no, I don't want it.
2:50:13
There are vendors that sell software out there to track just those behavior.
Robert Holden
2:50:19
But that's being done on everything.
2:50:21
You on your smartphone.
2:50:22
It's done all the time.
2:50:23
I mean, that We're that's the kind of world.
2:50:25
Yeah.
2:50:25
Whether we like it or not, it's kind of evolved into that.
2:50:28
But one other question, we had we had in 1990, we had a 132 burglaries.
