Chris Stevenson Sunday 03 November 2013 Customers at Tesco now face the prospect of having their faces scanned while they queue for the till as the supermarket tries to better target advertising towards customers. The system, developed by Amscreen,… Read More ›
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Okinawa cancels plan to use young women’s thighs as advertising space
National Feb. 03, 2013 – 06:48AM JST TOKYO — The Okinawa Convention and Visitors Bureau (OCVB) along with the prefectural government have cancelled their plans to use space on women’s bare thighs for marketing the islands as a graduation trip… Read More ›
Google starts watching what you do off the Internet too
Published: 20 December, 2012, 22:24 Edited: 20 December, 2012, 22:24 The most powerful company on the Internet just got a whole lot creepier: a new service from Google merges offline consumer info with online intelligence, allowing advertisers to target… Read More ›
More dodgy stats misleading the child protection debate
Last month we detailedhow one of the key statistics being relied upon by campaigners calling for ‘default blocking’ of some internet content was based upon one very dubious survey in a single school. This kind of deliberately misleading scaremongering undermines… Read More ›
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