Microsoft cooks your data: Gatineau and behavioral targeting

As our online behaviors are continually tracked and analyzed, more about us is known–by marketers and others. Web analytics–software that analyzes how one interacts with a site, is being merged with behavioral measurement and other identifying technologies. Microsoft is moving further in this area, including with its “Gatineau” product. Explains Online Metrics Insider:

“Once demographic information is captured in a registration database, it can be joined with behavioral data in the Web analytics system and reported on. For a real-world example of analytics/demographic integration, take a look at what Microsoft is doing with Gatineau, the company’s free Web analytics offering currently in beta. Microsoft is joining Web site behavioral data with rich demographic data from MS Live profiles.”

What can Microsoft collect? The Micro Marketing blog explains that “Gatineau provides unique insight into the age, gender, and occupation of your site’s visitors…Microsoft stores demographic and behavioral targeting data about a person separately from their contact information with strong safeguards in place to prevent “unauthorized correlation” of the separate data sets…What kind of data is accumulated? Certainly the information you supply when signing up for Hotmail or any number of Microsoft services. As well, your behavior on Microsoft web sites—which sites you visit, which parts of those sites, and how often. Also, publicly available data supplied by third parties may be used to complete your profile…From this data a site can build a detailed profile of the content that interests you and then use that profile to provide additional content or offers relevant to your interests.”

In another words–where is the FTC, the EC, and other privacy regulators!

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