It all started last year, when tech journalist Nathan Newman conducted an experiment with Gmail. Newman's experiment, while not exactly scientifically conducted, yielded some interesting results: the email service would give very different targeted ads to people based on ethnic-sounding names. For instance, when writing about buying a car, Jake...

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