{"id":218,"date":"2010-08-15T19:35:04","date_gmt":"2010-08-16T02:35:04","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.aarontitus.net\/blog\/?p=218"},"modified":"2010-08-15T19:35:04","modified_gmt":"2010-08-16T02:35:04","slug":"online-ad-networks-should-give-periodic-pii-psas","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.aarontitus.net\/blog\/2010\/08\/15\/online-ad-networks-should-give-periodic-pii-psas\/","title":{"rendered":"Online Ad Networks Should Give Periodic PII PSAs"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Dear FTC,<br \/>\nI&#8217;d like to propose the following idea to regulate online and behavioral advertising and networks: Any ad network which collects user information across more than one website should be required to occasionally display a Public Service Announcement (PSA) instead of an advertisement.  The PSA should be a standard format and include a notice something like this:<br \/>\n&#8220;XYZ Corp collects information about your computer as you visit websites within our advertising network. You have a right to know how we collect this information, a right to periodically inspect, amend, or delete the information.  We use the following methods to collect information:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Browser Fingerprinting [link to more information]<\/li>\n<li>Behavioral Analysis [link to more information]<\/li>\n<li>Cookies and Other Client-Side Object [link to more information]<\/li>\n<li>&#8230;etc.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>We have collected the following information about this computer:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Browser History [click to inspect] [click to delete]<\/li>\n<li>Screen Resolution<\/li>\n<li>Operating System<\/li>\n<li>Google search terms<\/li>\n<li>Website Visit Length<\/li>\n<li>&#8230;etc.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>There is a world of personal information flowing beneath our feet.  My identity is bought, sold, analyzed and re-analyzed across the world in milliseconds.  Notwithstanding that my identity is an passive participant in this shadow world, my fleshy identity is actively kept out.<br \/>\nPerhaps a periodic Personal Information Public Service Announcement might be a step to allow me to re-take control of my identity.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Dear FTC, I&#8217;d like to propose the following idea to regulate online and behavioral advertising and networks: Any ad network which collects user information across more than one website should be required to occasionally display a Public Service Announcement (PSA) instead of an advertisement. The PSA should be a standard format and include a notice [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[8],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.aarontitus.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/218"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.aarontitus.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.aarontitus.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.aarontitus.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.aarontitus.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=218"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/www.aarontitus.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/218\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":219,"href":"http:\/\/www.aarontitus.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/218\/revisions\/219"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.aarontitus.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=218"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.aarontitus.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=218"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.aarontitus.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=218"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}