Iain Macwhirter: Facebook, Google and Amazon are the robber barons of the modern age

Some time ago, my web and Facebook pages started filling with adverts about funeral arrangements and what I could do with £1 million pounds (I should be so lucky). I wasn’t planning on dying any time soon, so this was a little creepy. Did the evil algorithms know something about me that I didn’t? Had Big Data called time on me?http://www.heraldscotland.com/news/16114620.Iain_Macwhirter__Facebook__Google_and_Amazon_are_the_robber_barons_of_the_modern_age/?ref=rss