Category Archives: Advertising
Cisco Brings Targeted Ads Home
Linksys has adopted a horrible approach to further monetizing the digital ecosystem; some of their routers now hijack 404 pages to deliver advertising! This leads me to ask: when customers are sold automatic advertising + networking gear should they… Continue reading
DoubleClick, Cookies, and Personal Information
In the course of this post, I begin by outlining what constitutes personal information and then proceed to outline DoubleClick’s method of collecting personal information. After providing these outlines, I argue that online advertising systems do collect personal information and that the definitions that Google offers for what constitutes ‘personal information’ are arguably out of line with Canadian sensibilities of what is ‘personal information’. As a result, I’ll conclude by asserting that violations may in fact be occurring, with the argument largely emerging from Nissembaum’s work on contextual integrity. Continue reading
Economics of Authenticity on Twitter
I think that the generalization of all users as identical (e.g. all friend relationships on Facebook can be seen as equivalent to each other, in dollars and cents terms) is problematic and limits an accurate valuation of social networking environments. Continue reading
UK Government Responds to Phorm Petition
The UK is in a bit of a bad row. According the BBC news site, today the Speaker of the Commons has stepped down, there is an Irish child abuse report coming due, and violence is rife in a failing … Continue reading
