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Description: After a long day of work or study, you come home to find your favorite streaming service recommending the movie Teacher's Pet to you. You immediately click play and watch it all the way through. It's not until the credits roll that you realize what has been happening behind the scenes; those recommendation algorithms are learning about you. Your viewing behavior is being tracked in real-time, and they're using that information to serve ads with products you want to see, making your online shopping experience more personalized and streamlined than ever before. But there's a dark side to this technology-filled world we live in: it can also be used to manipulate the populace into behaving a certain way. It can even persuade people to make decisions that aren't in their best interest, such as purchasing products they don't need or want. So the next time you watch your favorite movie, think twice about what those recommendation algorithms are telling you; they may be leading you astray.