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AT&T’s Latest Tactic: Rewrite History [1]AT&T can’t seem to get its story straight on Net Neutrality. For years, company spokespeople had claimed that the issue was a "solution in search of a problem."Over the last ...
AT&T’s Latest Tactic: Rewrite History [3]AT&T can’t seem to get its story straight on Net Neutrality. For years, company spokespeople had claimed that the issue was a "solution in search of a problem." Over the ...
Google, Verizon and the FCC: Inside the War Over the Internet's Future [5]Sam Gustin at AOL Daily Finance has written one of the most in-depth journalistic pieces I've seen to date on what's happening over at the FCC, the Google/Verizon deal, and ...
Net Neutrality Supports Independent Art [7]Dear Fans of the First Amendment: read more ...
AT&T’s Masquerade over Paid Discrimination [9]There have been quite a few punches thrown recently over the concept of “paid prioritization.” Free Press and AT&T have each taken swings over the read more ...
Latino Freedom is Internet Freedom [11]Two separate, but intertwining trends -- the intense political activism of country's nearly 50 million Latinos and the historic fight to keep the internet as it is: free, flat and ...
Canadian Privacy Group Raises Key Concerns on Google, Doubleclick and Threat to our Privacy [13]We urge everyone to read the CIPPIC petition filed yesterday in Canada asking for a investigation of Google and Doubleclick. Among the key questions raised is whether the two companies ...
Google’s Mobile Search Advertising Ambition: Control the Market [15]From Online Media Daily [”Google’s Mobile Ad Move Gets Everybody Talking.” Tameka Lee. September 14, 2007] excerpt: The search giant “is acting fast to take control of the mobile search ...
Peter Fleischer, Online Advertising & Privacy: More than PR is Required [17]Mr. Fleischer made news yesterday when he presented Google’s call for “global privacy standards” at a UNESCO meeting. Google endorsed the weak (”flexible”) APEC proposal as a model framework. Really, ...
Keep Your Eye on Mobile Advertising, Marketing & Privacy, esp. Google, Microsoft and the Carriers [19]The online mobile space will be hugely important to civil society, communities, and the public. We have concerns about how the mobile marketing “ecosystem,” as its called by the industry, ...
Google: Cash, not Quality, Redefines Top Paid Search Placement [21]As Google changes its policies so it can dramatically broaden its reach for advertisers, esp. the ones with the deepest marketing pockets, it’s key to understand what it means for ...
Google’s Ad Industry-related Job Openings: help us become the “definitive source of marketing intelligence” [23]These three job announcements from Google are too good to ignore. They say a lot about where Google–and global society–are headed. I’ve excerpted from the complete ad (but links are ...
Google and Yahoo! Among Largest Donors of Ad Council [25]In a full-page ad in today’s New York Times “Week in Review” section, the Ad Council lists its `who’s who’ of media and big brand donors. Atop its list is ...
Video Ads Likely to Appear on Searches from Google [27]The evolution of Google from a system designed to provide the public with information into a full-blown data–collection broadband video platform promoting the interests of brands and marketers will make ...
Knight Foundation and a Grant for Viacom’s MTV: Funding a giant on its Journalism advisory committee [29]We have long had concerns about foundations funding media conglomerates to provide public service content. So, the John S. and James L. Knight Foundation’s recent award of $700,000 to MTV ...
Yahoo!’s Electoral Ambitions: Behavorial Targeting and Beyond [31]Yahoo! has unveiled an online targeting ad category for elections–raising serious questions about privacy and potential voter manipulation. Now, in addition to fast foods and cars, marketers can use Yahoo!’s ...
Yahoo! Swallows Blue Lithium to Expand its Behavioral Targeting Effort [33]The ever-growing consolidation of control in the online ad market continues (something CDD and USPIRG warned the FTC about in Nov. 2006). Yesterday, Yahoo! acquired ad network and behavioral targeting ...
For Sale on Ebay: Your Online Privacy [35]eBay is working with behavioral targeting technologies, including a test “retargeting” users (that means electronically shadowing) as they visit AOL, MSN, clients of Yahoo’s RightMedia ad exchange and other sites ...

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