Showing posts with label privacy. Show all posts
Showing posts with label privacy. Show all posts

Friday, August 17, 2012

Ad Age Report: A&E Beams Ads Into Your Head

Since I've been working on the new blog, Sports Greats Journalism Archive, I've been doing some research on advertising and marketing.  In the process, I stumbled on this very interesting article from Ad Age magazine--a respected source in the field--on a billboard that targets individual passers-by with a direct message from an audio spotlight.  The product on the billboard is the cable-TV program, "Paranormal State" appearing on--where else?--A&E.

http://adage.com/article/news/hear-voices-ad/122491/

Fascinating.

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Tuesday, March 6, 2012

Al Franken on "Target" Regarding Location Privacy and Stalking Apps

In a recent opinion piece appearing on Wired.com, Senator Al Franken (D-Minnesota) examines the issue of information and location privacy in the digital world.  Franken, chairman of the Judiciary Subcommittee on Privacy, Technology & the Law, introduced last June the Location Privacy Protection Act.  The bill, co-sponsored by Senator Richard Blumenthal (D-Connecticut), calls for...