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Behavioural targeting could well define the future of internet advertising. The principle is simple the better you understand user, the more accurately you can target them. But where do we draw the line in collecting the data? And who is going to draw it?
Behavioural targeting is no longer a fledgling technology. The first stage was simply looking at user’s behaviour and targeting them based on how they behaved on a certain website. For example, if a user had looked at an insurance website in the past few hours they were a prime target for an insurance ad.

However, the second stage has moved things on much further. The question now is to understand users enough to predict what they haven’t even done yet. By looking at all the independent threads of information collected on a user’s behaviour the aim now is to predict what products they may be interested in.

In essence, this is all very similar to what advertising has been doing for years. The key difference now is in the accuracy and complexity of analyzing the volumes of information now available.