Weekly Filet #55: You're the Target. And more.
Weekly Filet #55 is out now. You can view it in your browser or right below.
This week's top recommendation
With the internet and the aggregation of huge data sets, advertising is moving its focus from target groups to individual targets. Specialised companies are tracking your moves on the web to create highly detailed profiles of who you are, what you do and what you like so that advertisiers can tailor their ads specifically not only to you, but your current situation. You can hardly escape it, so it's good to know how it works.
→ A Guide to the Digital Advertising Industry That's Watching Your Every Click (The Atlantic)
Further recommendations
A fascinating and highly sophisticated interactive documentary on the life of a grizzly bear (ursus arctos horribilis, by the way).
→ Bear 71 (NFB)
This week, protests against ACTA have peaked. Wired has a good overview on what those four letters are really about.
→ What is Acta and why should you be worried about it? (Wired)
Some insights to the inner workings of the regime in Syria that doesn't stop killing its own people.
→ How Syria Works (Le Monde Diplomatique)
Great images of people who have just been slapped in the face. Nobody has been harmed in the process, they're just faking it.
→ Ohrfeigengesichter: Ca claque (TagesWoche)
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