Doc Frown: Searls decries video-conferencing software's 'creepy' closeness with ad tracking
As the global coronavirus pandemic pushes the popularity of videoconferencing app Zoom to new heights, one web veteran has sounded the alarm over the app's "creepily chummy" relationship with tracking-based advertisers.
Doc Searls, co-author of the influential internet marketing book The Cluetrain Manifesto last century, today warned [cached] Zoom not only has the right to extract data from its users and their meetings, it works with Google and other ad networks to turn their personal information into targeted, personalized ads that follow them across the web. This personal information includes, and is not ..
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