Verizon will share your personal data with AOL to target you with ads

Oct07

by Sindy Cator on October 7, 2015 at 10:13 am

Verizon successfully completed its acquisition of AOL in June this year, and now it will begin sharing customers’ personal data for the purpose of ad targeting. Sigh. From November, Verizon is going to start feeding information from its controversial supercookie identifier, which it uses to monitor mobile internet browsing habits of its customers, to AOL. The media company will then use that data, including users’ gender, age, location and browsing habits, to build an accurate profile of each person and target them with specific ads. AOL’s ad network is represented on 40 percent of live websites, so that’s a lot of…