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“Rogers Communications Inc. will launch two mobile devices next month running on Google Inc.’s Android operating system, ” says the Toronto Star.

It’ll, “launch the Android-powered HTC Dream and Magic smartphones on its network, but did not provide details on pricing,” says the story.

Marketing practices targeted at cellphone users

“Ads, and an invasive new model of data collection to target them,” said p2pnet in January, going on, “That’s Jeffrey Chester’s prediction, quoted in a Forbes story on how Google will ’squeeze revenue’ from its Android mobile platform.”

Chester’s advocacy group, the Center for Digital Democracy, along with the US Public Interest Research Group, was, “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,” said the story.

Google was, “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,” said 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’.”

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Toronto Star – Google phone coming to Canada, May 8, 2009
CBC – Rogers to offer Google-run phones, May 7, 2009
p2pnet – Privacy groups vs Google Android, January 13, 2009
Forbes – Privacy Groups Target Android, Mobile Marketers, January 13, 2009