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Censorship U?Arizona State University might need to change its name to
Censorship U after deciding to block
students’ access to popular petition site Change.org.
Change.org happens to be hosting
a petition ... A Push for Privacy in the Wake of the Carrier IQ ControversyRemember Carrier IQ, the company that makes the secret spying software that’s installed on more than 140 million phones? You know,
the software that can record
our most sensitive personal ... This Prettty Much Says it AllBy Bill Brown, Free Press' ingenious graphic designer.Timothy Karrhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/18428218526755405762noreply@blogger.com0 ... Citizens InundatedThe Supreme Court's Citizens United decision has already picked a winner in the 2012 elections: TV broadcasters. Companies like CBS Corp, News Corp. and Sinclair Broadcast Group are already dividing ... Can't Buy Me Laws: Congress Must Give Back Chris Dodd's Dirty MoneyPeople inside the D.C. bubble often tell stories about lavish
fundraisers and the use of campaign cash to shore up votes in Congress.
Conspiracy theories about who uses their PAC ... Media Literacy Students Create Anti-SOPA VideoUnder
the leadership of our friends at New Mexico’s Media Literacy Project, ninth
graders Jack Folkner, Martin Jencka and Jay Jewell-Roth created a video about
the recently shelved Stop Online ... Google Chrome Gets “Do Not Track” ToolGoogle Chrome now has Do Not Track!
This tool, developed by privacy expert Jonathan Mayer from Stanford University, allows Chrome users to tell websites that they do not wish to be ... Canadian Privacy Group Raises Key Concerns on Google, Doubleclick and Threat to our PrivacyWe 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 MarketFrom 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 RequiredMr. 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 CarriersThe 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 PlacementAs 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”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 CouncilIn 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 GoogleThe 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 committeeWe 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 BeyondYahoo! 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 EffortThe 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 PrivacyeBay 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 ... 
