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	<title>Digital Destiny</title>
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	<description>Jeff Chester Reports on Digital Media and the Public Interest</description>
	<pubDate>Thu, 12 Nov 2009 14:56:27 +0000</pubDate>
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		<title>Games Microsoft Plays:  “consumer online behavior” tracked on its video gaming service [a “massive” invasion of privacy!]</title>
		<link>http://www.democraticmedia.org/jcblog/?p=890</link>
		<comments>http://www.democraticmedia.org/jcblog/?p=890#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 12 Nov 2009 14:56:27 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>jeff</dc:creator>
		
		<category>interactive advertising</category>

		<category>broadband</category>

		<category>Microsoft</category>

		<category>advergaming</category>

		<category>FTC</category>

		<category>Interactive Corp.</category>

		<category>European Commission</category>

		<category>behavioral targeting watch</category>

		<category>out-of-home targeting</category>

		<category>Online advertising</category>

		<category>Global Digital Marketing</category>

		<category>Congress</category>

		<category>online video</category>

		<category>youth</category>

		<category>in-game advertising</category>

		<category>Obama Administration</category>

		<category>consumer protection</category>

		<category>children online</category>

		<category>Annals of Programming/Product Integration</category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Microsoft&#8217;s just announced a new consumer tracking and profiling tool for advertisers using its Massive video gaming platform service. Calling it a &#8220;breakthrough&#8221; in its press release, the new Microsoft/comScore research tool enables advertisers:
 &#8220;&#8230; to see the direct impact that in-game advertisements have on consumer online behavior&#8230;, advertisers will get an inside look at [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Microsoft Advertising offers “Profile Targeting”</title>
		<link>http://www.democraticmedia.org/jcblog/?p=889</link>
		<comments>http://www.democraticmedia.org/jcblog/?p=889#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 12 Nov 2009 12:35:19 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>jeff</dc:creator>
		
		<category>interactive advertising</category>

		<category>privacy</category>

		<category>broadband</category>

		<category>Microsoft</category>

		<category>interactive marketing</category>

		<category>FTC</category>

		<category>Behavioral Targeting</category>

		<category>European Commission</category>

		<category>behavioral targeting watch</category>

		<category>Online advertising</category>

		<category>Global Digital Marketing</category>

		<category>Congress</category>

		<category>Obama Administration</category>

		<category>annals of behavioral targeting</category>

		<category>consumer protection</category>

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		<description><![CDATA[As we just told the BEUC conference on consumer protection and online marketing, we couldn&#8217;t make this up if we tried.  Here&#8217;s what Microsoft Advertising says it can do via its UK site for marketers:
Just say who, when and where







Profile Targeting can help you find the people you’re looking for by who they are, where [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Facebook’s latest ad targeting–”Friends of Connections Targeting” [so watch your privacy setttings!]</title>
		<link>http://www.democraticmedia.org/jcblog/?p=888</link>
		<comments>http://www.democraticmedia.org/jcblog/?p=888#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 12 Nov 2009 02:17:16 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>jeff</dc:creator>
		
		<category>interactive advertising</category>

		<category>broadband</category>

		<category>interactive marketing</category>

		<category>social networks</category>

		<category>Facebook</category>

		<category>social media marketing</category>

		<category>behavioral targeting watch</category>

		<category>Global Digital Marketing</category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Facebook is expanding what brands and other marketers can do to target its users.  As InsideFacebook explains, &#8220;Facebook has just launched a new way to draw more people to your Facebook Page or application, called “Friends of connections” targeting. Here’s how it works: before today, advertisers could already target any of their “connections,” where connections [...]]]></description>
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		<title>CDD/USPIRG to FTC: Self-Reg is a Failure (and should be investigated for “unfair and deceptive” complaint!)</title>
		<link>http://www.democraticmedia.org/jcblog/?p=887</link>
		<comments>http://www.democraticmedia.org/jcblog/?p=887#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 10 Nov 2009 18:33:32 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>jeff</dc:creator>
		
		<category>privacy</category>

		<category>broadband</category>

		<category>FTC</category>

		<category>Behavioral Targeting</category>

		<category>Global Digital Marketing</category>

		<category>Congress</category>

		<category>annals of behavioral targeting</category>

		<category>consumer protection</category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Here&#8217;s what we included in our recent filing at the FTC.
     
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		<title>Google+AdMob=Mobile Privacy Issues for the FTC.  Questions should be raised about mobile targeting via “ethnicity”</title>
		<link>http://www.democraticmedia.org/jcblog/?p=856</link>
		<comments>http://www.democraticmedia.org/jcblog/?p=856#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 10 Nov 2009 13:39:02 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>jeff</dc:creator>
		
		<category>privacy</category>

		<category>broadband</category>

		<category>interactive marketing</category>

		<category>Google</category>

		<category>FTC</category>

		<category>Behavioral Targeting</category>

		<category>elections &amp; Internet</category>

		<category>Department of Justice</category>

		<category>adolescent privacy</category>

		<category>mobile marketing</category>

		<category>mobile privacy</category>

		<category>Global Digital Marketing</category>

		<category>Congress</category>

		<category>YouTube</category>

		<category>youth</category>

		<category>Obama Administration</category>

		<category>annals of behavioral targeting</category>

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		<description><![CDATA[The Federal Trade Commission should examine the privacy issues connected to the Google/AdMob deal.  As we informed the FTC yesterday, AdMob says it can target via &#8220;age, gender, HHI, ethnicity, education &#038; context.&#8221;
The CDD/USPIRG complaint on mobile advertising provides useful analysis. Here&#8217;s an excerpt on its discussion about AdMob:
AdMob: “Mining All the Data We’ve Captured”
AdMob [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Bravo to Public Voice’s “Global Privacy Standards for a Global World” Madrid Declaration</title>
		<link>http://www.democraticmedia.org/jcblog/?p=886</link>
		<comments>http://www.democraticmedia.org/jcblog/?p=886#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 09 Nov 2009 14:02:11 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>jeff</dc:creator>
		
		<category>privacy</category>

		<category>broadband</category>

		<category>FTC</category>

		<category>Web 2.0 &amp; Democracy</category>

		<category>European Commission</category>

		<category>behavioral targeting watch</category>

		<category>mobile privacy</category>

		<category>Online advertising</category>

		<category>Global Digital Marketing</category>

		<category>annals of behavioral targeting</category>

		<category>consumer protection</category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Last week, NGO&#8217;s and activists from across the world met in Madrid Spain to discuss threats to privacy and human rights.  It was part of the Public Voice&#8217;s excellent work to ensure that civil society is well represented in the debates over privacy and other digital media issues.  Over 100 NGO&#8217;s, including my own CDD, [...]]]></description>
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		<title>“Cookie Wars, Real-Time Targeting, and Proprietary Self Learning Algorithms: Why the FTC Must Act Swiftly to Protect Consumer Privacy”</title>
		<link>http://www.democraticmedia.org/jcblog/?p=885</link>
		<comments>http://www.democraticmedia.org/jcblog/?p=885#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 09 Nov 2009 13:52:47 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>jeff</dc:creator>
		
		<category>interactive advertising</category>

		<category>privacy</category>

		<category>media industry lobbying</category>

		<category>broadband</category>

		<category>Microsoft</category>

		<category>interactive marketing</category>

		<category>advergaming</category>

		<category>Google</category>

		<category>Yahoo!</category>

		<category>FTC</category>

		<category>Behavioral Targeting</category>

		<category>Web 2.0 &amp; Democracy</category>

		<category>online lead generation</category>

		<category>Interactive Corp.</category>

		<category>Online Mortgages</category>

		<category>European Commission</category>

		<category>Facebook</category>

		<category>MySpace</category>

		<category>medical privacy</category>

		<category>health privacy</category>

		<category>WPP</category>

		<category>behavioral targeting watch</category>

		<category>adolescent privacy</category>

		<category>mobile marketing</category>

		<category>mobile privacy</category>

		<category>Global Digital Marketing</category>

		<category>widgets</category>

		<category>multicultural marketing</category>

		<category>YouTube</category>

		<category>youth</category>

		<category>in-game advertising</category>

		<category>Obama Administration</category>

		<category>annals of behavioral targeting</category>

		<category>Havas Digital</category>

		<category>Hispanic Targeting</category>

		<category>Mobile Privacy Watch</category>

		<category>children online</category>

		<category>neuromarketing</category>

		<category>childhood and adolescent obesity epidemic</category>

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		<description><![CDATA[That&#8217;s the title of comments filed at the U.S. Federal Trade Commission by my Center for Digital Democracy and U.S. PIRG.  I also just gave a presentation with the same name at last week&#8217;s meeting of data protection commissioners in Madrid, Spain.   It&#8217;s available here.
Here&#8217;s an excerpt:   Today, consumers online face the rapid growth [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Groups &amp; Scholars Urge Congress to Strengthen FTC’s Ability to Protect Consumers</title>
		<link>http://www.democraticmedia.org/jcblog/?p=884</link>
		<comments>http://www.democraticmedia.org/jcblog/?p=884#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 29 Oct 2009 13:28:46 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>jeff</dc:creator>
		
		<category>interactive advertising</category>

		<category>privacy</category>

		<category>media industry lobbying</category>

		<category>broadband</category>

		<category>interactive marketing</category>

		<category>advergaming</category>

		<category>public health</category>

		<category>FTC</category>

		<category>Behavioral Targeting</category>

		<category>online lead generation</category>

		<category>Online Mortgages</category>

		<category>medical privacy</category>

		<category>health privacy</category>

		<category>adolescent privacy</category>

		<category>mobile marketing</category>

		<category>mobile privacy</category>

		<category>Online advertising</category>

		<category>multicultural marketing</category>

		<category>Congress</category>

		<category>Obama Administration</category>

		<category>consumer protection</category>

		<category>neuromarketing</category>

		<category>childhood and adolescent obesity epidemic</category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.democraticmedia.org/jcblog/?p=884</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[The advertising lobby has been working to undermine the FTC&#8217;s ability to serve the public interest.  Advertisers are fearful that the FTC&#8211;finally awakened from a long digital slumber&#8211;will actually investigate the numerous problems linked especially to marketing (think prescription drugs, financial marketing of subprime loans, etc.).  They are especially concerned that the FTC will effectively [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Huffington Post CEO Opposes Consumer Privacy Safeguards [HuffPost CEO Eric Hippeau Doesn’t Get Privacy]</title>
		<link>http://www.democraticmedia.org/jcblog/?p=883</link>
		<comments>http://www.democraticmedia.org/jcblog/?p=883#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 22 Oct 2009 14:32:27 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>jeff</dc:creator>
		
		<category>interactive advertising</category>

		<category>broadband</category>

		<category>journalism</category>

		<category>media criticism</category>

		<category>hypocrisy</category>

		<category>interactive marketing</category>

		<category>Google</category>

		<category>FTC</category>

		<category>Behavioral Targeting</category>

		<category>Web 2.0 &amp; Democracy</category>

		<category>Doubleclick</category>

		<category>behavioral targeting watch</category>

		<category>Online advertising</category>

		<category>Congress</category>

		<category>annals of behavioral targeting</category>

		<category>consumer protection</category>

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		<description><![CDATA[File this under &#8220;we aren&#8217;t concerned about the public interest when it may affect our bottom line.&#8221;  At yesterday&#8217;s Web 2.0 Summit conference, a panel on the future of news included representatives from HuffPo, Google, the NYT and others.  When a question was asked from the audience about behavioral targeting, here&#8217;s what Huffington Post CEO [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Facebook:  “selling fans between $4 and $10″ to Brands and others</title>
		<link>http://www.democraticmedia.org/jcblog/?p=882</link>
		<comments>http://www.democraticmedia.org/jcblog/?p=882#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 21 Oct 2009 13:14:39 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>jeff</dc:creator>
		
		<category>privacy</category>

		<category>interactive marketing</category>

		<category>FTC</category>

		<category>European Commission</category>

		<category>social networks</category>

		<category>Facebook</category>

		<category>social media marketing</category>

		<category>Global Digital Marketing</category>

		<category>Congress</category>

		<category>in-game advertising</category>

		<category>consumer protection</category>

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		<description><![CDATA[The Facebook economy&#8212;built on allowing marketers to harness what&#8217;s called the &#8220;social graph&#8221;&#8211;is big business (and will grow as consumers also buy more virtual goods).  AllFacebook reports that:
&#8220;When the Facebook platform launched two and a half years ago a massive cost per install economy sprouted up. Whether it was individual developers looking for more users [...]]]></description>
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