[cratermoon]

> what are the actual harms

The kind of question can only be asked by someone who has never been abused by a domestic partner, never been on the wrong end of debt collectors, the law, disgruntled employees, doxxers, or other real and persistent threats that are enabled by the data collection and aggregation that is the foundation of interest targeting.

[quotemstr]

Do abusive domestic partners, debt collectors, random employees, or angry doxxers have access to targeted advertising interest data? The "harm" you're discussing is hypothetical and extremely unlikely. I'm asking for concrete examples.

[morelisp]

Debt collectors are huge data broker clients. (And sellers too - junk debt can go both ways on these markets.) Disgruntled employees leak a fair bit too.

[cratermoon]

40% of police officer families experience domestic violence: https://www.theatlantic.com/national/archive/2014/09/police-...