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We support the aims of the Pew Project for Excellence in Journalism and others who want to help ensure the survival of serious news reporting in the U.S., especially in newspapers.  But the center's new study fails to address the key questions--and policy issues--connected to digital advertising and newspaper sites.  Ironically, if they had asked their outside expert Prof.

Google's real motivation for its privacy policy changes is to gather and make actionable more profile data for targeting and digital marketing.  Yet it failed to tell consumers this in its announcement of the pending changes.  This failure to be candid with users is, in our view, a violation of the consent degree in the Google Buzz case.  Google should be required to explain it wants to add to its data profiling/targeting capabilities for ad and marketing sales, esp.

The recent flare-up/digital privacy food fight between Microsoft and Google (including full-page print ads from Microsoft) shouldn't distract from a key point:  digital marketers like Google and Microsoft are basically doing the same things--despite whatever "spin" they place on it.  Digital advertising is a global business whose business model for online data collection and profile-based targeting across all platforms are being engineered by Google, Microsoft and a few other leaders.  Facebook's expansion of viral and peer to peer marketing has also shaped online d