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You know what I would love to see as a solution to dealing with this threat: A clearinghouse where everyone could register to receive every report from every c

You know what I would love to see as a solution to dealing with this threat: A clearinghouse where everyone could register to receive every report from every company collecting information on you, then a regulation that requires all companies collecting and brokering information about you have a legal obligation to send you all the information they have on you and keep you updated of changes, and a report profiling the customers that bought that info on you. I doubt this market it going away, so the least we could do if require this industry to keep us informed of the information on us and how it's used.

blumkvist 12y ago
Evidon [1] is what you are looking for. It's not exactly the way you describe it. More like an alpha stage of what you talk about. There are little boxes in the corner of website banners (served from the more reputable companies) which leads you to a page telling you why you were served that ad and giving you a list of companies who have data on you. You can through them and chose to opt-out. They have a timeframe to delete that data. Currently everything absolutely voluntarily. Google have their own variation of this called "ad choices" you can find it on youtube and other adsense properties. [1] https://www.ghosteryenterprise.com/ https://www.ghosteryenterprise.com/ PS: They are a commercial entity and develop the popular ghostery plugin, which does the same, but pro-actively.
mynewwork 12y ago
I don't see exactly what the threat here is. How am I being harmed by someone choosing to show me an ad for something relevant to my interests than something that's not? I'm not saying that I'm not being harmed, just that I don't see it. Are companies quoting me higher prices than if I was in the lowest-income bucket or hiding lower-cost alternatives?

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You know what I would love to see as a solution to dealing with this threat: A clearinghouse where everyone could register to receive every report from every c

by malandrew 12y ago

blumkvist 12y ago
Evidon [1] is what you are looking for. It's not exactly the way you describe it. More like an alpha stage of what you talk about. There are little boxes in the corner of website banners (served from the more reputable companies) which leads you to a page telling you why you were served that ad and giving you a list of companies who have data on you. You can through them and chose to opt-out. They have a timeframe to delete that data. Currently everything absolutely voluntarily. Google have their own variation of this called "ad choices" you can find it on youtube and other adsense properties. [1] https://www.ghosteryenterprise.com/ https://www.ghosteryenterprise.com/ PS: They are a commercial entity and develop the popular ghostery plugin, which does the same, but pro-actively.
mynewwork 12y ago
I don't see exactly what the threat here is. How am I being harmed by someone choosing to show me an ad for something relevant to my interests than something that's not? I'm not saying that I'm not being harmed, just that I don't see it. Are companies quoting me higher prices than if I was in the lowest-income bucket or hiding lower-cost alternatives?