San Antonio Express-News - Meinrath is director of X-Lab, a nonprofit that "anticipates the disruptions and dystopian outcomes of tech policy decisions and aims to help humanity change course." [...] he says more expensive inconveniences abound, including a monthly hold on his credit card after an authorized transaction always trips the fraud alert, even though he's repeatedly told his credit card company to expect this charge. Ever since I changed my status on Facebook to "married," my news feed has been full of ads about morning sickness, baby names, "18 Pregnancy Announcements that Run the Gamut from Terrible to Terrific," and a quiz promising to help me decipher whether I'm gestating a girl or a boy. [...] Facebook advertisers are acting like a nosy mother anyway, making assumptions about my reproductive plans, presumably because statistics show that newlywed young women like me are often breeding. [...] what if the data profile online trackers construct about you turns out to be true, but still in
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