Aug 28, 2017 · 1 min read
I wouldn’t be so sure. You can infer the products a user might want to buy based on their other online activity. Instagram is owned by Facebook, so they have a lot of data to throw at their machine learning algorithms.
This has been going on for years. Check out this story from 2012: https://www.forbes.com/forbes/welcome/?toURL=https://www.forbes.com/sites/kashmirhill/2012/02/16/how-target-figured-out-a-teen-girl-was-pregnant-before-her-father-did/&refURL=https://duckduckgo.com/&referrer=https://duckduckgo.com/
