Comments on: Does Mobile Marketing Infringe on Your Privacy?

By: Jason Kuiper

Jason Kuiper — Sat, 17 Jan 2009 20:36:07 +0000

A cell phone is not the place to advertise. There is a place and time, and that isn’t it

By: Mobile Marketing for Restaurants – Does it Go Too Far? | On A Wait

Mobile Marketing for Restaurants – Does it Go Too Far? | On A Wait — Fri, 16 Jan 2009 14:28:42 +0000

[...] As the whole mobile marketing craze is being scrutinized by privacy groups, the FTC and various other regulatory agencies, restaurateurs need to carefully examine the concept and their customer base. Does unsolicited advertising, forced upon a device you are paying a fee to use and taking your time to remove and/or deal with in some fashion become an invasion of privacy, nuisance or just plain bothersome? According to some marketing experts, the line may be crossed with cell phone ads (follow this link). [...]

By: DF Marketing SEO

DF Marketing SEO — Fri, 16 Jan 2009 03:05:18 +0000

Does milk carton marketing infringe on your privacy?

By: Quilmes Verano

Quilmes Verano — Thu, 15 Jan 2009 11:57:55 +0000

Read the link to the roving bug issue. Apparently it can be avoided if your wrap your phone in tin foil. Big problems, simple answers.

By: JR @ Internet Marketing Do-Follow Blog

JR @ Internet Marketing Do-Follow Blog — Wed, 14 Jan 2009 20:03:37 +0000

LOL, privacy on the net? Yeah right, that is an oxymoron isn't it? I mean the WWW cannot be private and in actuality the Internet makes the world much smaller and each day takes away more and more privacy. Mobile marketing for me is just a pain, I have to delete those messages when I get them JR @ Internet Marketing Do-Follow Blog's last blog post..Internet Marketing for Bums - Make Money with Zero Start-Up

By: Wii

Wii — Wed, 14 Jan 2009 17:30:13 +0000

I think there will be plenty more discussion regarding this and probably plenty of legal talk and action. Some people will believe this is harmless and others will believe it is against every rule of privacy in the book. I personally would rather see targetted ads that are to my tastes rather than any ad you get sent like I do at home.

By: Utah SEO Pro

Utah SEO Pro — Wed, 14 Jan 2009 17:08:54 +0000

The real question is: Does behavioral marketing infringe upon your privacy? Utah SEO Pro's last blog post..An Interview with Utah SEO Pro (Jordan Kasteler) by Martin Bowling

By: Quilmes Verano

Quilmes Verano — Wed, 14 Jan 2009 16:31:05 +0000

I’d like to think that it’ll be cool to live in a future with ads like those in the movie Minority Report. Targeted ads are the way to go. I’d prefer someone to offer me something I might want compared to viagra or cialis or whatever spammers offer.

By: Nicole Price

Nicole Price — Wed, 14 Jan 2009 15:31:29 +0000

Anything that collects and uses data about me without my permission is invasion of my privacy. Nicole Price's last blog post..Good Deals on Hair Products

By: Anthony "Mobile Marketing" Wayne

Anthony "Mobile Marketing" Wayne — Wed, 14 Jan 2009 14:52:39 +0000

The Patriot Act has kind of opened the doors for the government to infringe on your privacy rights. Perhaps, the new administration will take a look at this and offer a more practical idea that balances both protection needs and privacy rights.

By: Patrick

Patrick — Wed, 14 Jan 2009 13:41:44 +0000

What I don't like is when they get your information and use it to bug you or in wrongful ways. Public information like you picture and name are not private and if you go into a store, I do not believe that a company should have to get rid of all images of people in their store. Seems kind of ridiculous and too hard to do. Patrick's last blog post..New Toy Safety Law Not So Green?

By: Shirley

Shirley — Wed, 14 Jan 2009 12:46:43 +0000

Yes, this is a really bad idea. I think we all want a little more control over what information people can use about us to 'display' ads. Regardless, its always a bit of an inconvenience anyway, regardless of whether or not the ad is relevant. Shirley's last blog post..Firefox 2 on Mac: jQuery Anti-Aliasing/Opacity Bug

By: Jacques Seoman

Jacques Seoman — Wed, 14 Jan 2009 08:59:07 +0000

Privacy concerns will always be top of the list when it comes to mobile marketing for me. Targeted ads do make a lot of sense to advertisers, but how much information is always the question that begs to be answered. Anything you do could be used against you at some stage, so call me paranoid if you like, but I like to keep my online behaviour as private as possible.

By: PS3

PS3 — Wed, 14 Jan 2009 08:13:50 +0000

I’m not sure I agree with all the comparatives between internet and mobile marekting.

If you land on a page advertising products you would rather not see, you can click on. In the same way you can change channel if a TV ad isn’t too your liking.

Mass advertising is spam, which is a different matter.

Mobile advertising is nothing like that (not in my experience to date, anyway)

By: R&B Love Songs

R&B Love Songs — Wed, 14 Jan 2009 04:37:36 +0000

Honestly, as long as the informatoin is stored anonymously and not tied to you, it should be fine. The fact that the person who owns this phone has these attributes doesn’t immediately indict you. I’d rather things be better targeted to me than get annoying spam because i wanted “privacy”

By: coldbrew

coldbrew — Wed, 14 Jan 2009 02:15:02 +0000

Beal,
The idea is that consumers should be able to make an informed choice about which information can and will be shared/ used. In the US, it should not be possible if the person is under the age of 13. It is not unreasonable to ask for full disclosure and I would like to have an awareness campaign for the less informed (I have some friends that are clueless about these things).

I use opera for all my web-based accounts (gmail I use IMAP).

Firefox to browse with NoScript/AdBlock

Scroogle to search.

Call me paranoid, but as an adult I feel obligated to minimize my actions being tracked; most people are lazy and uniformed.

Disclosure: We have a side project we hope to turn into a company one day that protects people’s commercial activity as it is valuable and should not be given away for free. Potential investors weren’t interested because they don’t see any demand.

By: Wii

Wii — Tue, 13 Jan 2009 23:20:23 +0000

I am not sure about intruding on your privacy. The only way they would do that would be if they took your text messages and dissected them to give you tailored ads sort of like sites that offer ads dependant on your search terms