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Tag Archives: Consumer Reports
Why Advertisers Barely Outrank Politicians, Lobbyists, and Car Salesmen
Admen aren’t called hucksters for nothing. Exhibit Umpteen: They barely moved the needle in this recent Gallup poll on Honesty/Ethics in Professions. Fourteen percent. Ouch. And here’s why, from the current issue of Consumer Reports. (Tip o’ the pixel … Continue reading
Spacebook: 13 Million US Facebookers Don’t Use Privacy Controls
A Consumer Reports investigation reveals that a fair chunk of Facebookniks are pretty casual about protecting their privacy. Via the Boston Globe: Nearly 13 million US Facebook users do not use, or are not aware of, the site’s privacy controls, according to a … Continue reading
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Tagged Boston Globe, Consumer Reports, Facebook, Mark (DataSuckah) Zuckerberg, Sneak ADtack
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Private Oy: Facebook And The Super Snoopers (Part Two)
Last week the Sneak ADtackniks posted a trifecta of online-privacy cautionary tales, including concerns about thenym wars – the argument over pseudonyms on the Internet – and a panel discussion conducted by the Wall Street Journal. In the course of the latter, Public Parts author Jeff (I … Continue reading
Suddenly Household Appliances Are The New Political Front
Forget public-employee collective bargaining rights as the major threat to the Republic. It’s actually household-appliance regulation that will end Life As We Know It. First there was this piece in the January 31 edition of The Weekly Standard. Another Triumph for … Continue reading
