What Marketers Think They Know About You and What They Really Do 277
mattydread23 writes "Data broker Acxiom did something a little unusual this week. It launched a service that lets you see the data they've collected on you. CITEworld writer Ron Miller checked it out, and found it to be mostly laughably inaccurate. Among the things they got wrong included his religion, his interests, and the number of kids he has. But worst? It pegged him as a Windows user."
Re:Seriously? (Score:5, Funny)
Alright, here's what we know about you:
Name, physical address, email address, and last four digits of your ssn.
Gotcha!
Re:Pegged as a Windows user!? (Score:5, Funny)
From what they know about me... (Score:5, Funny)
I'm a male or female or a cat who makes between $21,000 and $250,000 dollars
I'm between 16 and 79.
I apparently like boobs.
I'm either unemployed, self employed or work for others as a manager or employee.
I may have good credit.
Re:From what they know about me... (Score:4, Funny)
Hey, I'm a cat that likes boobs, too...
Wanna hook up?
Re:Pegged as a Windows user!? (Score:3, Funny)
Thou art a tool.
Let me assist thee.
Thy grammar is atrocious.
The mistake was thine.
*waits for -1, Informative score*
Re:Pegged as a Windows user!? (Score:4, Funny)
What's your problem with Pervert?
Re:Seriously? (Score:5, Funny)
And you are +1 gullible
Incorrect. The word "gullible" is deprecated. It was removed from all dictionaries years ago. Look it up.
What you're thinking of is not "+1 gullible", but "doubleplus ungood thinking".
Never gets old. My sister pulled the old "you know the word "gullible" isn't in the dictionary" trick on a roommate long ago. Unlike you, roommate couldn't spell the word, attempted to look it up, failed, and declared "Oh my God, you're right!"
Re:What they know? Apparently nothing! (Score:5, Funny)
Nah. They have to ask verification questions. It's just like when Google called me the other day telling me my GMail account has been hacked into. In order for them to verify who I was, I had to give them my name, my address, two phone numbers, another email address, my mother's maiden name, the credit card number that was registered on my Play account and a list of all the addresses I had lived at in the last five years. I gave them that information so they would know it was really me and then they helped get my account sorted out.