By Jasper Hamill, 25 Jun 2014

 

When Buzzfeed first began to offer the world a constant free stream of inane listicles, cat pics and funny fail.gifs, it seemed too good to be true.

Yet it turns out that the world's biggest content aggregator isn't just shiny and happy – it's curious too. In fact, according to a digital marketer, Big Buzzfeed is watching us all.

 On his blog, e-commerce and digital marketing expert Dan Barker warned that Buzzfeed was in fact wolfing down large amounts of its readers' data.

 

The Register/ full read here/ http://www.theregister.co.uk/2014/06/25/buzzfeed_aggregated_data_slurp/