Microtargeting may be illegal

[Qutzupalotl]

Interesting argument from Chris Vickery on Twitter:

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Chris Vickery ✔ @VickerySec · 3h

The corruption machine breaks if individual-level targeted tracking is removed.
And the legal framework to accomplish this already exists. It is already law.
It must be enforced.

Psychographic profile data is medical data. Seeking to influence present and future behavior of a specific individual, based upon previous individual-attributed acts and sentiment is psychiatric experimentation and is the unlicensed practice of medicine.

[Anon-C]

1. Makes sense to me!

[Rainbow Droid]

2. Absolutely. Advertising already went way too far about two decades back.

Time to dial it in before it destroys us all. It can get so much worse and the world it leads to is beyond terrifying.

[obamanut2012]

3. The MInofrity Report

This group in DC would so do the Precog Crime thing if they could.

[aikoaiko]

5. What you click on is not medical data. geesh.

[reACTIONary]

9. +100

[Qutzupalotl]

12. No, but the psychological profile and subsequent manipulation

arguably could fall in the medical experiment category.

[DemocracyMouse]

6. Brilliant. Big data meets big medicine.

And we do have those pesky hippa laws...

[bucolic_frolic]

7. Psychiatric Experiment

That's what I feel like every time I get a notice from the Republican Party or the NRA. Especially the one I received on the Friday before Election Day 2016. Wish I had saved it.

[Ligyron]

8. Too bad someone on our side wasn't micro targeting those dimwits.

We might still have a republic if that had been the case.

and since it's apparently not enforced if indeed a law and there's an important election upcoming ...

[Pepsidog]

10. Credit for creativity but this is a bit absurd.

[X_Digger]

11. lol, no.