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X-Ray Lets Email Users See How Email Data is Turned Into Ads

Researchers at Columbia University have created a tool called X-Ray that lets email users see how their email data is turned into ads. The tool shows how correlations between certain keywords used by a user in their email will result in an ad alongside their inbox. The idea is to give consumers more transparency into how marketers use data to send targeted messages. 

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