The retail giant also sell this information to thousands of other businesses, who use consumer profiles for advertising and demographic research.

零售巨头也向数千其它企业出售这一信息，以便其利用消费者特征进行广告制作和人口研究。

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Billboards in Japan peer back at passersby, assessing how they fit consumer profiles, and instantly change displayed messages based on those assessments.

日本的户外广告牌能够即时查询到过路者的消费记录，根据这些消费记录有针对性的显示不同的广告信息。

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But over two-thirds—2, 224—were installed by 131 companies, many of which are in the business of tracking Web users to create rich databases of consumer profiles that can be sold.

但是由131家公司所安装的超过三分之二的追踪文件（2224个）都有问题，这些公司中的不少都涉足此类交易：追踪Web用户以建立可供售出的海量用户资料数据库。

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Unless, of course, we're willing to barter with something else, such as our consumer profiles or our photo streams.

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Essentially, she accuses these four of conspiring with Interclick to create consumer profiles and track unwitting Big Mac buyers and fantasy football fans and then target them with ads.

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The company has built millions of consumer profiles.

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