by admin | Aug 30, 2019 | Uncategorized
I set out as a full-time digital marketing consultant about 6 months ago, and I had to face the fact that a lot of internet marketing is horrible. Citizens of the web are bombarded with belly fat ads, Facebook sold their data to shady political manipulators and their...
by admin | Aug 6, 2019 | Uncategorized
Today, AdExchanger reports on eMarketer research that the ‘Ad Tech Tax’, the fees that marketers pay intermediary technology providers, have decreased. That’s great! However, it’s a good time to revisit if the Ad Tech tax is worth it in the...
by admin | Aug 2, 2019 | Uncategorized
Doing the right thing after doing the wrong thing for a long time can be difficult and costly. This morning I read a round up on the first year of GDPR and a short article about Senator Feinstein’s bill to protect voters from digital manipulation ala Cambridge...
by admin | Jul 31, 2019 | Uncategorized
You have to admire their audacity. After a receiving a $5B fine for misleading consumers on data collection and running into regulatory scrutiny on Libra, their cryptocurrency project, it has come out that Facebook has been funding research on machines that read...
by admin | Jul 29, 2019 | Uncategorized
The FTC recently announced a record fine to Facebook, and the press has been critical that it doesn’t require much action from Facebook in reforming its business practices. Another is that the fine was too small This is an example from Bloomberg. I think the FTC did...
by admin | Jul 29, 2019 | Uncategorized
Maybe it shouldn’t be. But it is. It’s become increasingly clear to me in my perusal of the tech media and my experience working in Digital Marketing that privacy has become a luxury good. Should it be that way? No. I think there should be some enforceable rights...
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