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Your Digital Shadow Has a Rap Sheet and Advertisers Know It

Posted on October 26, 2025October 21, 2025 By Don MacLeod

The headline almost sounds like a Black Mirror episode that didn’t make it to air: AI companies are training their systems on crime data to sell ads more effectively. Yes, you read that right. The same information that used to live in dusty police databases—arrests, mugshots, court records, neighborhood stats—is…

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