Speeches
Digital Health Issues
Leading Consumer, Privacy and Civil Liberties Groups Tell Senate Action Required on Privacy
Earlier this week, the data collection and advertising lobby and its supporters [inc. Chamber of Commerce] urged the Senate to do nothing to protect U.S. consumer privacy. The trade groups want self-regulation to remain as the key framework--even though it has been a failure for more than a decade. Leading NGO's wrote to the Senate Commerce Committee today, urging them to pass legislation that will protect the public.
Leading Consumer, Privacy and Civil Liberties Groups Tell Senate Action Required on Privacy
Earlier this week, the data collection and advertising lobby and its supporters [inc. Chamber of Commerce] urged the Senate to do nothing to protect U.S. consumer privacy. The trade groups want self-regulation to remain as the key framework--even though it has been a failure for more than a decade. Leading NGO's wrote to the Senate Commerce Committee today, urging them to pass legislation that will protect the public.
Leading Consumer, Privacy and Civil Liberties Groups Tell Senate Action Required on Privacy
Earlier this week, the data collection and advertising lobby and its supporters [inc. Chamber of Commerce] urged the Senate to do nothing to protect U.S. consumer privacy. The trade groups want self-regulation to remain as the key framework--even though it has been a failure for more than a decade. Leading NGO's wrote to the Senate Commerce Committee today, urging them to pass legislation that will protect the public.
Leading Consumer, Privacy and Civil Liberties Groups Tell Senate Action Required on Privacy
Earlier this week, the data collection and advertising lobby and its supporters [inc. Chamber of Commerce] urged the Senate to do nothing to protect U.S. consumer privacy. The trade groups want self-regulation to remain as the key framework--even though it has been a failure for more than a decade. Leading NGO's wrote to the Senate Commerce Committee today, urging them to pass legislation that will protect the public.
Facebook Gives a Break to Advertisers Who Keep Eyeballs on its Platform
Several weeks ago we sent to the FTC materials involving Facebook's new policy of having its Credits be the exclusive provider of virtual currency for social games, getting 30% cut of all sales.
WPP's unleashes "world's largest database" with "over 500 million" user profiles-and they claim it protects privacy!
The digital data collection arms race, embodied by the dramatic growth of ad exchanges (and the real-time auctioning off of consumers without their knowledge or consent), now has generated WPP's new Xaxis data targeting platform. As Adweek reports, " Xaxis, a unit that will manage the "world’s largest" database of individuals’ profiles—including demographic, financial, purchase, geographic, and other information that’s been collected from peoples’ Web activities and physical transactions.
