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Dr. Ads Does The Cher-ing Thing
Originally posted on the Newer! Improveder! Sneak ADtack!
What We Need Is A “Do Not Trick” Law
NPR’s All Things Considered ran a piece yesterday about negotiations among U.S. technology companies to protect consumer privacy on the Internet, with a special eye toward European standards: America’s big technology companies are negotiating the details of a new privacy system called … Continue reading
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Tagged All Things Considered, CISPA, cyberthreats, Do Not Track, Europe, NPR, Sneak ADtack
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How Do You Like Your Online Privacy: Regular Or Extra-CISPA?
The U.S. House of Representatives has just tried to take a bite out of your online privacy (via ABC News): CISPA: Cybersecurity Bill May Pit Online Safety Against Privacy While all the focus was on SOPA and PIPA, the so-called Internet piracy … Continue reading
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Tagged ABC News, AlterNet, case of the high-sterics, CISPA, online privacy, PIPA, Sneak ADtack, SOPA, U.S. House
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Cookies ‘n’ Milking Data
From Politico’s Playbook: FIRST LOOK – “Hill+Knowlton Strategies Launches Influence Point … Hill+Knowlton Strategies [today will launch] a new service called Influence Point … With H+K Influence Point, companies can serve online ads directly to individuals identified as influencers. H+K’s combined research … Continue reading
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Tagged Hill+Knowlton Strategies, Influence Point, Mark McKinnon, Politico Playbook, Sneak ADtack, The Street
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Hey, FaceShnook: You’re Being Pixel-Pocketed!
The latest installment in the Wall Street Journal’s invaluable (and Pulitzer Prize-worthy) What They Know series is a wake-up call for every one of the 800 million+ Facebookniks. Selling You on Facebook Many popular Facebook apps are obtaining sensitive information about users—and users’ friends—so … Continue reading
Honda Is Fonda Paying Bloggers For Plugs
Blogola is a problem serious enough to draw the regulatory attention of the Obama administration. But that hasn’t affected the efforts of marketers to grease bloggers (in this case through a third-party European company). From Jalopnik (via MediaPost): How Honda Pays Bloggers To Write About … Continue reading
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Tagged blogola, eBuzzing, Honda, Jalopnik, MediaPost, Momola, Sneak ADtack
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Online Track ADtack!
You have no idea how much you’re being stalked on the Internet. But the Atlantic does. From Alexis Madrigal’s piece in the Atlantic’s February edition: I’m Being Followed: How Google—and 104 Other Companies—Are Tracking Me on the Web This morning, if you … Continue reading
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Tagged Alexis Madrigal, Collusion, Google, Huffington Post, Microsoft, Mozilla, New York Times, Sneak ADtack, The Atlantic
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Mazda Gets Some Lorax-ion
Universal Pictures’ new release The Lorax features a major buildup and a major built-in: A marketing partnership with Mazda. From Mediaite: Really?! The Lorax Is Being Used To Shill For SUVs Irony died this week when the hyper-saccharine, “rainbow-barf monstrosity” 3D-CG film adaptation of Dr. Seuss’s The … Continue reading
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Tagged CX-5, Mazda, Mediaite, Mother Jones, Sneak ADtack, SUV, The Lorax, Universal Pictures
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Attack Of The Googletron
There’s bad news and worse news about Internet privacy these days. The bad news (via the Boston Globe): As the online search giant Google Inc. prepares to change the way it uses information about Internet users, regulators and consumer watchdogs worry … Continue reading
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