• Shadow@lemmy.ca
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    19 hours ago

    Apparently Walmart can tell a woman is pregnant before they know themselves, they do such extensive data mining around what people purchase.

    Maybe google knows your future…

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      6 hours ago

      No, that story wasn’t about the power of data. It was a young woman using the family computer to browse Target for baby stuff because she was pregnant. And then Target sent emails with baby stuff.

      So it’s more like: the internet knows you are pregnant before you tell your dad.

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      18 hours ago

      Also warehouse operators can usually tell, when a woman/employee is pregnant even before she knows, because it will actually show in their working statistics

      I’ve heard that not just from one warehouse manager.

      They know fucking before you do, because of the data.
      That’s a hard thing, if you don’t have any labour protection laws