2011-10-29
New MMA Mobile App Privacy Framework Fails to Protect Privacy [annals of data collection foxes running the standards process]
Submitted by demedia on Sat, 10/29/2011 - 16:19Ensuring privacy and consumer protection safeguards in the mobile and location marketing era is key. Mobile marketers have largely failed to offer meaningful proposals that would empower an individual to control their mobile data experience. Given that the business model for mobile advertising is a combination of behavioral profiling and your location, the industry doesn't really want to alter its business model. Take the new "Mobile Application Privacy Policy Framework" just released by the M
Google's vision of the Internet: it's the "third phase of the television business"
Submitted by demedia on Sat, 10/29/2011 - 15:34Back in the 1990's, when too many "Netizens" proclaimed that the Internet would be a radically new medium and freed from commercial restaints of mass media, people like Kathryn Montgomery and I knew they were naive. It was clear--both from what marketers were saying at the time and the history of electronic media in the 20th Century--that the same commercial forces that had undermined the public interest potential of radio, broadcasting TV and cable would help shape "cyberspace." That's one reason why my group during the mid-1990's spearheaded efforts to regu
