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Over-The-Top and On-Demand "TV" viewing changes everything and makes media consumption completely personalized. Soooooo tempting for the trackers who think your privacy is less important than their profit! https://www.fastcompany.com//why-streaming-tv-devices-are-

"Credit cards are a spy in your wallet and it’s time that we add privacy, alongside rewards and rates, to how we evaluate them." -Geoffrey A. Fowler, Wash Post . (Apple may be getting it right.) https://www.washingtonpost.com//spy-your-wallet-credit-ca/

"Everything you do online is logged in obscene detail... you have no privacy... I was bowled over by the scale and detail of the tracking..." - Farhad Manjoo, NYT https://www.nytimes.com//data-internet-privacy-tracking.ht

‘Fingerprinting’ to Track Us Online Is on the Rise. Here’s What to Do. - The New York Times

Wow. New low. (Well actually not that new. Newly discovered!) https://www.digitaltrends.com//gmail-purchase-history-pri/

The scale of the fraud we found is jaw-dropping. The industry continues to waste marketing budgets on what is essentially organized crime. - Anthony Hitchings, Financial Times https://www.thedrum.com//cost-global-ad-fraud-could-top-30

More trending evidence of consumer attention shifting to modern OTT platforms. The new opportunities for media sponsorship will increasingly shift to streaming media (and point-of-purchase transactions). https://digiday.com//inside-race-scramble-ad-supported-ott/

Creepy/crappy data. And some advertiser is now paying a little more money for the pleasure of reaching yet another wrong person. Everyone loses (except of course Facebook). https://www.wsj.com//facebook-ads-will-follow-you-even-whe

The I agree button should have long ago been renamed Meh, whatever. - NYT Editorial Board #meismine https://www.nytimes.com//internet-facebook-google-consent.

"42% of users are willing to share their data when the benefits are clearly explained, with another 21% willing to do so if they feel trust toward the brand". Hopefully, we can convince consumers to hoard their data, not share it. #meismine #privacy https://360.advertisingweek.com/regaining-consumers-trust-/

Smart TVs Track You, Then Sell Your Data "The reason that Facebook is free is that your information is worth money. You essentially pay for the service by giving up some privacy. And now TVs are largely the same way." Wonderful. https://www.secureworldexpo.com//smart-tvs-track-you-then-

Don't want Facebook to know you? Just "lie" - like a few things you hate, dislike a few things/pages you like. Make sure they are wrong about you & reclaim your privacy. Easy! https://www.socialmediatoday.com//what-does-facebo/546502/