You For Sale: Mapping, And Sharing, The Consumer Genome

By NATASHA SINGER, New York Times
Sun, 06/17/2012 - 4:15am

Few consumers may have heard of Acxiom, a database marketer. But it has amassed the world’s largest commercial data trove about them, analysts say.

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