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Online Ad Lobby to Consumers: You Can't See or Control Your Information!
Submitted by demedia on Fri, 03/30/2012 - 12:55Who owns and controls your information? You the individual---or the data brokers that now can collect everything you do online and off. The public got its answer yesterday. The lobbying group representing Google, Facebook, Yahoo and the unaccountable digital data mining industry say they get to decide whether a consumer can access and control their own information. These folks have a future working with Mr. Putin at the Kremlin!
Online Ad Lobby to Consumers: You Can't See or Control Your Information!
Submitted by demedia on Fri, 03/30/2012 - 12:55Who owns and controls your information? You the individual---or the data brokers that now can collect everything you do online and off. The public got its answer yesterday. The lobbying group representing Google, Facebook, Yahoo and the unaccountable digital data mining industry say they get to decide whether a consumer can access and control their own information. These folks have a future working with Mr. Putin at the Kremlin!
Microsoft's new Behavioral Targeting Product: "Intent BT" and social media and user profile auctions
Submitted by demedia on Fri, 03/30/2012 - 17:48excerpt from Microsoft Advertising and Solution Overview (our emphasis).
FTC Makes Advances Protecting the Privacy of Americans in Big Data Era, with Call for Congress to Rein-in Data Brokers
Submitted by demedia on Mon, 03/26/2012 - 17:06FTC Makes Advances Protecting the Privacy of Americans in Big Data Era, with Call for Congress to Rein-in Data Brokers
But major concerns loom as report leaves consumers vulnerable to widespread data collection and tracking. Battles ahead as consumer group presses for action
Statement of Jeff Chester, Executive Director, Center for Digital Democracy
FTC Makes Advances Protecting the Privacy of Americans in Big Data Era, with Call for Congress to Rein-in Data Brokers
Submitted by demedia on Mon, 03/26/2012 - 17:06FTC Makes Advances Protecting the Privacy of Americans in Big Data Era, with Call for Congress to Rein-in Data Brokers
But major concerns loom as report leaves consumers vulnerable to widespread data collection and tracking. Battles ahead as consumer group presses for action
Statement of Jeff Chester, Executive Director, Center for Digital Democracy
FTC Makes Advances Protecting the Privacy of Americans in Big Data Era, with Call for Congress to Rein-in Data Brokers
Submitted by demedia on Mon, 03/26/2012 - 17:06FTC Makes Advances Protecting the Privacy of Americans in Big Data Era, with Call for Congress to Rein-in Data Brokers
But major concerns loom as report leaves consumers vulnerable to widespread data collection and tracking. Battles ahead as consumer group presses for action
Statement of Jeff Chester, Executive Director, Center for Digital Democracy
FTC Makes Advances Protecting the Privacy of Americans in Big Data Era, with Call for Congress to Rein-in Data Brokers
Submitted by demedia on Mon, 03/26/2012 - 17:06FTC Makes Advances Protecting the Privacy of Americans in Big Data Era, with Call for Congress to Rein-in Data Brokers
But major concerns loom as report leaves consumers vulnerable to widespread data collection and tracking. Battles ahead as consumer group presses for action
Statement of Jeff Chester, Executive Director, Center for Digital Democracy
Online Biz Lobby Expands in DC, inc. Google, Facebook, Yahoo. Privacy on its radar screen
Submitted by demedia on Mon, 03/26/2012 - 14:04One sign of the success of my CDD and our privacy, consumer protection and civil liberties allies is the dramatic growth of lobbyists working for the online marketing industry in DC (and around world). Google, Facebook, Yahoo and others are fearful that the Congress and FTC will weigh in and protect the public. That's why the digital giants have opened up their sizeable wallets to help them buy the influence and professional assistance they require. Politico has a very good article on these latest developments. Which I excerpt below because it should be on
Google's Expansion of Admeld and Display ads products another illustration of why its privacy plan changed
Submitted by demedia on Sat, 03/24/2012 - 13:16The folks at Google need to do some soul-searching--and fast. With the EU and others gathering evidence on the failure of Google to candidly inform users of the real reasons for its new privacy policy, the company really risks suffering from serious reputational harm. There's no reason why Google can't admit to its users that the name of the game on online data
Google's Expansion of Admeld and Display ads products another illustration of why its privacy plan changed
Submitted by demedia on Sat, 03/24/2012 - 13:16The folks at Google need to do some soul-searching--and fast. With the EU and others gathering evidence on the failure of Google to candidly inform users of the real reasons for its new privacy policy, the company really risks suffering from serious reputational harm. There's no reason why Google can't admit to its users that the name of the game on online data
