Here’s an excerpt from a story released yesterday that was written by Wendy Davis. We are very proud of our leadership role in exposing the threats to consumer privacy from interactive marketing techniques shaping our digital media system. Unlike some other groups, we are independent and don’t–and would never–take corporate money. From the Daily Online Examiner:
“For the most part, online behavioral targeting seemed to fly under lawmakers’ radar earlier this decade, when companies like Tacoda and Revenue Science were getting started. That situation had started to change by 2006, when the Center for Digital Democracy and U.S. Public Interest Research Group filed an FTC complaint about behavioral targeting techniques. The FTC held a town hall meeting last November, but few people were yet discussing NebuAd and other companies that rely on data purchased from ISPs.”
source: NebuAd Faces Economic Squeeze. Wendy Davis. Daily Online Examiner. August 7, 2008. [reg. required]
