Privacy groups vs Google Android
p2pnet news view Advertising | Mobiles:- Ads, and an invasive new model of data collection to target them.
That’s Jeffrey Chester’s prediction, quoted in a Forbes story on how Google will “squeeze revenue” from its Android mobile platform.
Today, “Chester’s advocacy group, the Center for Digital Democracy, along with the U.S. Public Interest Research Group, is expected to file a complaint with the Federal Trade Commission that alleges deceptive practices throughout the nascent mobile advertising industry and asks the commission to launch an investigation into the privacy implications of marketing practices targeted at cellphone users,” says the story.
In September last year, Guess what? – asked a recent p2pnet story about an IDC study, continuing
“Mobile phones are primarily used as – mobile phones. In other words, people mainly use them for talking to each other.”
Another p2pnet post says student-researchers were wondering how other students saw current and future uses of the cell phone. So they ran a survey – and, “Guess what? Mobile phones are primarily used as – mobile phones. In other words, people mainly use them for talking to each other.”
But could it be that for Google, there’s more to it than meets the ear?
The company gave some of the YouTube partners a demo of the Android, says a hilarious YouTube video.
Says the guy, one of the people who’s been given an Android to try out and who’s talking to another demo partner, “I like it but the only thing I’m not crazy about is the uh –”
And his call is interrupted by an advertising message: “Don’t forget. For tonight only, wings are ………”
What’s that they say about many a true word is spoken in jest?
Now, “Google is far from the only company named in the wide-ranging complaint, which lists more than a dozen small firms as well as giants like Nokia, Microsoft, Yahoo! , AT&T and Verizon among those engaged in suspicious collection or sharing of data for mobile marketing purposes,” says Forbes, adding:
“But Chester, the advocacy’s group founder and executive director, singles out Google as ‘a leader in creating the mobile data collection apparatus’.”
Rumours that Google is secretly trying to buy into the US government’s Electronic System of Travel Authorization (ESTA) shouldn’t necessarily be discounted.
Forbes – Privacy Groups Target Android, Mobile Marketers, January 13, 2009
Guess what? – Android: Google a-for-ad-Phone, September 17, 2008
p2pnet – This phone is made for talking …, August 18, 2008
p2pnet – Phones of the Phuture: same as today, September 2, 2008
be discounted - Going to the US? First, register online, January 13, 200
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