Internet Advertisers Revise Privacy Program

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Eric Engleman
Bloomberg
November 8, 2011

An Internet-advertising industry program to enforce privacy safeguards is expanding in response to concerns from U.S. regulators and consumer-advocacy groups.

The voluntary program, announced last year by an advertising-industry coalition, calls for letting consumers block ads that are based on their Web-browsing habits. The U.S. Federal Trade Commission expressed concern that the program didn’t apply to other forms of online tracking.

The changes will let consumers block other kinds of Internet-data collection, with the exception of information gathering required for companies’ “operations and system management,” said Stu Ingis, general counsel for the Digital Advertising Alliance, which administers the program, in an interview yesterday.

The alliance “has announced important changes to address how data can be collected and used online,” Jessica Rich, deputy director of the FTC’s consumer protection bureau, said in an e-mail yesterday. “We’ve been encouraging them to make these changes and believe it’s an important step for consumers and for self-regulation.”

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  1. SNIFF-SNIFF…ANYONE ELSE…SMELL THAT?

    SMELLS LIKE…BULL FECES TO ME.

    SO..LEMME SEE..FACEBOOK..TWITTER..WILL NOT BE ABLE TO TRACK..EVERYTHING…THOSE FOOLISH ENOUGH..AND DESPERATE ENOUGH…AND PATHETIC ENOUGH…TO USE THOSE..”SERVICES”…..DO?

    SO..WE ARE GOING TO SEE THE PURE EVIL..”LIKE” BUTTON..VANISH..FROM SITES?
    SO..WE ARE GOING TO BEGIN TO SEE A “RETREAT” OF THE NOW UBIQUITOUS AND…PURE EVIL…USE OF “FACEBOOK” BY LOCAL…LOCAL..AND NATIONAL…NEWS PAPERS IN THEIR “COMMENTS” SECTIONS? BECAUSE RIGHT NOW…MORE AND MORE “NEWS PAPERS”..LITERALLY…..DEMAND..THAT WE NOT ONLY “USE FACEBOOK” FOR “COMMENTS”..ON LOCAL ISSUES..BUT THATW E LITERALLY..”ONLY”…USE FACEBOOK TO COMMENT.

    SO…WE ARE GOING TO SEE “GOOGLE HOME INVASION HELPER”…OOPS..SORRY..”GOOGLE ACCESSORY AFTER THE FACT”..OOPS..SORRY AGAIN..I MEANT TO SAY “GOOGLE STREET VIEW”…OFFER AN “OPT OUT” FOR HOME AND PROPERTY OWNERS WHO DO NOT….DO…NOT…WANT THEIR PROPERTY..REPLETE WITH OPEN WINDOWS…EVERY SHADOW..EVERY TREE AND HEDGE…EVERY FENCE AND LOCKED OR OPEN GATE….SHOWN TO…’THE WORLD”?

    REALLY?

    KIND OF DOUBT IT!

    THE SIMPLE FACT IS…THE “WEB: IS LARGELY…OVER!

    IT HAS BECOME A STUPID..HOSTILE..PLACE OF FAKE “FRIENDS”..FAKE “DISCUSSION”..AND IS IN FACT A ‘CONSENSUS” KILLER.

    LITERALLY..”SELF SURVEILLANCE” IS WHAT THE “INTERNET” NOW…IS.

    I ACTUALLY…HAVE A STORY ABOUT THIS REALITY AND THE OVERT “CHANGE” THAT HAS OCCURRED;

    WHEN I FIRST BEGAN USING THIS “TOOL” IN THE LATE 1990′S…I WAS INTO AN AUTHOR NAMED ‘ELMORE LEONARD’.

    HIS BOOKS ARE MADE INTO MOVIES…HIS BOOKS ARE PRETTY DAMNED GOOD. (MOST OF EM..STICK TO THE BEST SELLERS TO BE SURE..LIKE “3:10 TO YUMA” AND “OUT OF SIGHT” AND “RIDING THE RAP” AND “TISHOMINGO BLUES” ETC..).

    AT THAT TIME I WAS JUST GETTING INTO READING HIS BOOKS AND HAD ALREADY FIGURED OUT THAT THE “BEST SELLERS” WERE BETTER THAN OTHER TITLES..A COINCIDENCE.

    SO..I LOOKED UP “BEST SELLERS OF ELMORE LEONARD”.

    AND…….GOT A “LIST”..BACK.

    AN ACTUAL ‘LIST”..PUT TOGETHER BY ANOTHER “FAN”.

    TRY DOING THAT NOW!

    NOW…ANYTHING YOU “SEARCH” FOR…HERE IS WHAT YOU WILL GET:

    THOUSANDS OF PAGES OF ADVERTISING.

    ANCIENT AND..ODDLY..USELESS “POSTS” (ALTHOUGH THAT “LIST” I GOT IN 1999? IS NOW…GONE..ODDLY THE BODY OF ANCIENT STUFF THAT TURNS UP IN A CURRENT “SEARCH” IS…AMAZINGLY..USELESS…A WEIRD “MYSTERY”)..

    YOU WILL ALSO GET A “WIKIPEDIA” LINK..

    YOU WILL GET WHATEVER EVEN REMOTELY ASSOCIATED “CORPORATE” OR “PRIVATE” MONEY MAKING EFFORTS THAT CAN BE EVEN REMOTELY ASSOCIATED WITH ANY WORD IN YOUR SEARCH..

    ETC..

    ETC..

    ETC..

    ETC..

    ETC…

    THE “WEB”..IS NOW..LARGELY….USELESS.

    AND IT IS ALL…ALL..BEING WATCHED.

    HERE IS THE BOTTOM LINE AND I DEFY…ANYONE…TO SHOW OR PROVE..OTHERWISE…REGARDING THE “WEB” AND ESPECIALLY ‘SOCIAL NETWORKS”:

    “EVERYTHING IS WORSE, NOTHING IS BETTER!”

    AS A RESULT OF THE “INTERNET”..FROM “PROTEST” TO “CHANGE” TO EVERY AREA AND ASPECT OF THE ‘CULTURE”….LITERALLY….AGAIN:

    “EVERYTHING IS WORSE, NOTHING IS BETTER!”

    BEFORE THE “WEB” WE HAD CIVIL RIGHTS AND GANDHI AND MANDELA AND FARM WORKERS AND? AND? AND? AND? AND?

    WITH..THE WEB WE HAVE..FAKE….FAKE…FAKE..FAKE…FAKE.

    NO..REAL…”CHANGE”.

    EVERYTHING IS WORSE….NOTHING..IS BETTER.

    (AND EVEN VIDEO GAMES ARE GOING DOWN HILL FAST).

    ITS ALREADY OVER!

    ONLY THE “DEEP WEB” HOLDS ANY PROMISE..AND THEN..ONLY BECAUSE “ANONYMIZING NETWORKS” MAKE IT IMPOSSIBLE OR VERY CLOSE TO IT..FOR THE CORPORATE FASCIST REGIME TO CONDUCT THEIR SURVEILLANCE.

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