notice and choice

Do people hate ads? No, according to Vegard Johnsen, eyeo’s chief product officer. What they don’t like, he says, is not being treated with respect.

In a world where people casually toss around the term “surveillance advertising” and Congress is pushing for a national privacy law, has the clock run out on self-regulation?

So, I tried using AdChoices to opt out of seeing an ad. But the experience didn’t go very well, to say the least.

I’ve heard people say that there’s a Simpsons reference for every occasion. I posit that the same could be said of “South Park.” There’s an episode from 2011 that perfectly encapsulates the debate about notice and choice.

Notice and choice just got dragged at a House subcommittee hearing on privacy. Rep. Frank Pallone called it “coercive.”