Comments on: Google, CDT, Online Advertising & Preserving Persistent User Choice Across Ad Networks Through Plug-ins

By: The Progress & Freedom Foundation Blog

The Progress & Freedom Foundation Blog — Thu, 03 Sep 2009 17:36:52 +0000

Privacy War II (Part 1): Attack of the Anti-Advertising Axis...

Note the disclaimer below, emphasized here Seventy years ago yesterday, Hitler's troops invaded Poland. Thus began World War II--after twenty years of rising tension in Europe. For the next eight months, the world sat waiting for the other shoe......

By: Privacy War II (Part 1): Attack of the Anti-Advertising Axis — Technology Liberation Front

Wed, 02 Sep 2009 19:22:18 +0000

[...] While the latter group (like EFF, which signed on to the letter, and CDT, which did not, but which has advocated other forms of privacy regulation) may waver in their commitment to user empowerment at times, their core instincts are sound and [...]

By: TPW 44: Unsafe at Any Setting (A Conversation with Chris Soghoian) | The Technology Liberation Front

Fri, 19 Jun 2009 22:08:36 +0000

[...] discussion of the issue of preserving user choice through permanent opt-out [...]

By: Behavioral Advertising Industry Practices Hearing: Some Issues that Need to be Discussed | The Technology Liberation Front

Thu, 18 Jun 2009 04:21:10 +0000

[...] “Free, Innovative & Open,” to borrow the slogan of our friends at CDT, which seems to flirt with joining the PETD movement, despite their well-earned reputation for pragmatic skepticism [...]

By: Ends, Means, and One Man’s War on Advertising | The Technology Liberation Front

Tue, 24 Mar 2009 15:06:03 +0000

[...] they can design society better than society can design itself. (Berin has done a terrific job of lambasting the Center for Democracy and Technology for its similarly conceited, blindly pro-regulatory armchair quarterbacking on the online [...]

By: Berin Szoka

Berin Szoka — Sun, 15 Mar 2009 14:34:08 +0000

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By: Jeff Chester

Jeff Chester — Sun, 15 Mar 2009 13:58:42 +0000

There is a real lack of understanding of the contemporary dimensions of the online advertising "ecosystem," as marketers call it. Behavioral targeting is just one of an growing inter-related mix of applications and strategies designed to foster data collection (for analysis, profiling, user targeting/influencing) across platforms. Our criticism is based on a much more thorough assessment of what advertising companies, such as Google, Microsoft and Facebook, are doing--including what's coming next. Behavioral digital advertising is about someone--such as finance and pharmaceutical companies [and also political groups]--knowing your behaviors (and now real-time location) and deploying powerful marketing techniques designed to change your behavior/attitudes. Beyond actual limits to what online marketers can do with certain troubling methods, a full-opt in and citizen/consumer affirmative control is required for much of digital advertising. More at www.democraticmedia.org

By: Jim

Jim — Fri, 13 Mar 2009 23:33:01 +0000

I have created and am maintaining a comprehensive set of opt-out plug ins (currently nearly 50 networks), which you can see here:

http://www.privacychoice.net

It would be a simple matter to connect this database to the plugin. I was just about to start that effort based on Google's code, but would be happy to collaborate. You can contact me at jim@privacychoice.net