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Commercial surveillance marketing rapid expansion via agentic GenAI commerce tech with real-time bidding. Privacy, consumer, antitrust alarms should be ringing--worldwide. s3.amazonaws.com/media.mediap...
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November 14, 2025 at 7:20 PM
Commercial surveillance marketing rapid expansion via agentic GenAI commerce tech with real-time bidding. Privacy, consumer, antitrust alarms should be ringing--worldwide. s3.amazonaws.com/media.mediap...
Important tell MSNOW/MSNBC viewers real reasons for change, inc. new corp. ownership structure to distance from Comcast/NBCU for political/financial reasons; MSNOW & other Versant properties could be eventually sold (and there are new financial pressures to make $). Real changes.
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November 14, 2025 at 6:01 PM
Important tell MSNOW/MSNBC viewers real reasons for change, inc. new corp. ownership structure to distance from Comcast/NBCU for political/financial reasons; MSNOW & other Versant properties could be eventually sold (and there are new financial pressures to make $). Real changes.
@maddow.msnbc.com
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TACD warns: The European Commission’s Digital Omnibus reform could weaken major EU digital protections. Civil society groups in the United States and in Europe call on the Commission to halt these changes. bit.ly/4i9uGf2
Streamlining or deregulation? TACD sounds alarm on EU Digital Omnibus
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November 14, 2025 at 5:56 PM
TACD warns: The European Commission’s Digital Omnibus reform could weaken major EU digital protections. Civil society groups in the United States and in Europe call on the Commission to halt these changes. bit.ly/4i9uGf2
Your privacy further threatened--& this is tip of GenAI digital data iceberg. What is Trump FTC doing? "Google Accused in Suit of Using Gemini AI Tool to Snoop on Users"
bit.ly/3LJEXlO
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Google Accused in Suit of Using Gemini AI Tool to Snoop on Users
Google was accused in a lawsuit of using its Gemini AI assistant to unlawfully track the private communications of users of its Gmail, instant messaging and videoconference programs.
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November 14, 2025 at 5:51 PM
Your privacy further threatened--& this is tip of GenAI digital data iceberg. What is Trump FTC doing? "Google Accused in Suit of Using Gemini AI Tool to Snoop on Users"
bit.ly/3LJEXlO
bit.ly/3LJEXlO
Via Google: "our agent is built to sell. Its intelligent intent classifier understands how your customers are shopping and tailors their experience...Guide them with personalized, conversational search that inspires them to find—and buy...Drive revenue with natural conversation..."
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November 13, 2025 at 7:19 PM
Via Google: "our agent is built to sell. Its intelligent intent classifier understands how your customers are shopping and tailors their experience...Guide them with personalized, conversational search that inspires them to find—and buy...Drive revenue with natural conversation..."
bit.ly/49RYx9v
bit.ly/49RYx9v
Call My Agentic! With a slew of consumer, financial, health, privacy Gen AI tech threats, will Congress call out the growing problems of unregulated agentic commerce? Let's see if lawmakers know what's really going on. energycommerce.house.gov/posts/chairm...
Chairmen Guthrie and Joyce Announce Oversight and Investigations Hearing on the Safety of Artificial Intelligence (AI) Chatbots
The Committee on Energy and Commerce is the oldest standing legislative committee in the U.S. House of Representatives and is vested with the broadest jurisdiction of any congressional authorizing com...
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November 13, 2025 at 6:47 PM
Call My Agentic! With a slew of consumer, financial, health, privacy Gen AI tech threats, will Congress call out the growing problems of unregulated agentic commerce? Let's see if lawmakers know what's really going on. energycommerce.house.gov/posts/chairm...
One of the greatest risks with GenAI is its already core role in commercial surveillance marketing, threatening consumers, privacy, health, for ex. Growing platform & GenAI tech partnerships part of this emerging system. US regulators--#FTC--failing. Here's one recent alliance: bit.ly/47QudJQ
Snap and Perplexity Partner to Bring Conversational AI Search to Snapchat
Partnership expands AI offerings available to the Snapchat community and marks the first large-scale integration of an external AI partner directly into the app. Today Snap Inc. (NYSE: SNAP) and Perpl...
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November 12, 2025 at 6:08 PM
One of the greatest risks with GenAI is its already core role in commercial surveillance marketing, threatening consumers, privacy, health, for ex. Growing platform & GenAI tech partnerships part of this emerging system. US regulators--#FTC--failing. Here's one recent alliance: bit.ly/47QudJQ
November 11, 2025 at 7:28 PM
Perplexity vs Amazon battle over agentic AI commerce illustrates how public will ultimately be surrendering more data, autonomy, influence to commercial surveillance AI operations giants. That's why regulations needed asap.
November 11, 2025 at 7:27 PM
Perplexity vs Amazon battle over agentic AI commerce illustrates how public will ultimately be surrendering more data, autonomy, influence to commercial surveillance AI operations giants. That's why regulations needed asap.
Why is the EU undermining human rights & privacy for its citizens & public worldwide via its "Digital Omnibus" plans? Bending knee to #BigTech #GenAI co's. Violating EU principles to make a "deal." @HennaVirkkunen @EUCssrMcGrath noyb.eu/en/eu-commis...
EU Commission about to wreck core principles of the GDPR
The EU Commission has secretly set in motion a potentially massive reform of the GDPR. noybs first overview of the proposed changes.
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November 11, 2025 at 6:02 PM
Why is the EU undermining human rights & privacy for its citizens & public worldwide via its "Digital Omnibus" plans? Bending knee to #BigTech #GenAI co's. Violating EU principles to make a "deal." @HennaVirkkunen @EUCssrMcGrath noyb.eu/en/eu-commis...
Unconstrained by any policy safeguards, GenAI will user in more powerful commercial surveillance marketing, impacting consumers/citizens, finances, health, privacy, more. More powerful #BigTech too.
ChatGPT ads are coming – and they won’t look like Google Ads searchengineland.com/chatgpt-ads-...
ChatGPT ads are coming – and they won’t look like Google Ads searchengineland.com/chatgpt-ads-...
ChatGPT ads are coming – and they won’t look like Google Ads
OpenAI CEO Sam Altman says Google’s ad model profits when search fails – and vows ChatGPT will take a different approach to ads and commerce.
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November 10, 2025 at 5:59 PM
Unconstrained by any policy safeguards, GenAI will user in more powerful commercial surveillance marketing, impacting consumers/citizens, finances, health, privacy, more. More powerful #BigTech too.
ChatGPT ads are coming – and they won’t look like Google Ads searchengineland.com/chatgpt-ads-...
ChatGPT ads are coming – and they won’t look like Google Ads searchengineland.com/chatgpt-ads-...
In the Gen AI commercial surveillance marketing era: Palantir & Stagwell partnership. Here's what it does:
"The platform is AI-based to enable large companies... to sift through tens of millions of records to identify, segment, and better understand audiences..." bit.ly/3JndplF
"The platform is AI-based to enable large companies... to sift through tens of millions of records to identify, segment, and better understand audiences..." bit.ly/3JndplF
Palantir Technologies Inc. (PLTR) and Stagwell (STGW) Join Forces to Design Product for the Future of Marketing
/PRNewswire/ -- Palantir Technologies Inc. (NASDAQ: PLTR) and Stagwell (NASDAQ: STGW) today announced a groundbreaking partnership centered around an AI-driven...
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November 7, 2025 at 4:03 PM
In the Gen AI commercial surveillance marketing era: Palantir & Stagwell partnership. Here's what it does:
"The platform is AI-based to enable large companies... to sift through tens of millions of records to identify, segment, and better understand audiences..." bit.ly/3JndplF
"The platform is AI-based to enable large companies... to sift through tens of millions of records to identify, segment, and better understand audiences..." bit.ly/3JndplF
With FTC & federal gov't failing to protect public from Gen AI dangers, state AGs, others should be investigating agentic AI advertising ops, such as new "Ad Context Protocol." Let's not keep repeating mistakes and hold #bigtech & role of marketing accountable. adcontextprotocol.org/docs/intro/
Getting Started | AdCP - Open Standard for Advertising Workflows
AdCP is an open standard for advertising automation built on Model Context Protocol (MCP). Learn how to integrate AI-powered advertising workflows.
adcontextprotocol.org
November 3, 2025 at 7:09 PM
With FTC & federal gov't failing to protect public from Gen AI dangers, state AGs, others should be investigating agentic AI advertising ops, such as new "Ad Context Protocol." Let's not keep repeating mistakes and hold #bigtech & role of marketing accountable. adcontextprotocol.org/docs/intro/
Illustrating Gen AI dangers we face: "Tech industry is looking to the president to knock down any remaining Biden-era regs," says Politico. Among co's involved via their lobbying/trade groups include Google, Meta, Amazon. It's all about further monetizing you, families, communities, countries.
November 3, 2025 at 6:10 PM
Illustrating Gen AI dangers we face: "Tech industry is looking to the president to knock down any remaining Biden-era regs," says Politico. Among co's involved via their lobbying/trade groups include Google, Meta, Amazon. It's all about further monetizing you, families, communities, countries.
FCC plan to pressure local TV news on so-called "news distortion" should be reviewed & illustrates need for US 21st Digital Media for democracy agenda.
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FCC’s Olivia Trusty Affirms Its Power to Enforce Public-Interest Standards on Broadcasters
In ‘Free Speech America Gala’ speech, Republican argues agency’s role should be to ‘foster an environment that empowers broadcasters’ to ‘voluntarily’ comply
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November 3, 2025 at 5:34 PM
FCC plan to pressure local TV news on so-called "news distortion" should be reviewed & illustrates need for US 21st Digital Media for democracy agenda.
bit.ly/4oLl2B7
bit.ly/4oLl2B7
Mark Zuckerberg feels so immune from Trump Adm FTC that Meta doesn't even offer ineffective opt-out on AI surveillance marketing. Says a lot about what he knows goes on there!
www.mediapost.com/publications...
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Watchdogs To FTC: Block Meta Plan To Harness Chatbot Data
Meta's plan to target ads based on chatbot conversations "will normalize a level of surveillance that is qualitatively more intrusive than traditional behavioral tracking," privacy groups tell the
FTC...
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October 30, 2025 at 6:42 PM
Mark Zuckerberg feels so immune from Trump Adm FTC that Meta doesn't even offer ineffective opt-out on AI surveillance marketing. Says a lot about what he knows goes on there!
www.mediapost.com/publications...
www.mediapost.com/publications...
Is Trump FTC concerned more about your AI privacy & safety or Meta's growing grab of our info? Dozens of advocates tell #FTC to act asap, enforce its rules. Key test for #FTC in the #GenAI era.
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Advocates Urge FTC to Halt Meta’s Plan to Use AI Chatbot Data for Ads | Center For Digital Democracy
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October 30, 2025 at 11:24 AM
Is Trump FTC concerned more about your AI privacy & safety or Meta's growing grab of our info? Dozens of advocates tell #FTC to act asap, enforce its rules. Key test for #FTC in the #GenAI era.
bit.ly/3X3sWdm
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Advocates Urge FTC to Halt Meta’s Plan to Use AI Chatbot Data for Ads tinyurl.com/2wp5mtdj @epic.org @digitaldemoc.bsky.social
Advocates Urge FTC to Halt Meta’s Plan to Use AI Chatbot Data for Ads | Center For Digital Democracy
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October 30, 2025 at 10:35 AM
Advocates Urge FTC to Halt Meta’s Plan to Use AI Chatbot Data for Ads tinyurl.com/2wp5mtdj @epic.org @digitaldemoc.bsky.social
China will still be the "boss" in TikTok deal, raising questions about how & what data is gathered & used. Ongoing ad targeting isn't protecting privacy or security. "latest changes put almost all of TikTok’s business operations under Chinese execs who are ByteDance veterans."
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TikTok Empowers Chinese Executives in Management Revamp
TikTok is implementing drastic leadership changes that pull the video app closer to the orbit of its parent ByteDance, just as Washington and Beijing are on the cusp of reaching a deal over the app’s ...
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October 27, 2025 at 3:28 PM
China will still be the "boss" in TikTok deal, raising questions about how & what data is gathered & used. Ongoing ad targeting isn't protecting privacy or security. "latest changes put almost all of TikTok’s business operations under Chinese execs who are ByteDance veterans."
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Shame on Hollywood Unions & those concerned about democracy in US. Speak out against Warner/Discovery/CNN sale, esp to Paramount/Skydance (which will have TikTok too!). #WGA esp should stand up here.
Springsteen, Elizabeth Warren & the Last Populists in Hollywood open.substack.com/pub/theankle...
Springsteen, Elizabeth Warren & the Last Populists in Hollywood open.substack.com/pub/theankle...
Springsteen, Elizabeth Warren & the Last Populists in Hollywood
A senator calls out a WBD mega-merger while Bruce sings about America’s soul. So why does the industry hum along in silence?
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October 23, 2025 at 5:59 PM
Shame on Hollywood Unions & those concerned about democracy in US. Speak out against Warner/Discovery/CNN sale, esp to Paramount/Skydance (which will have TikTok too!). #WGA esp should stand up here.
Springsteen, Elizabeth Warren & the Last Populists in Hollywood open.substack.com/pub/theankle...
Springsteen, Elizabeth Warren & the Last Populists in Hollywood open.substack.com/pub/theankle...
AI browsers--commercial surveillance via GenAI. Regulators & advocates should address agentic AI search, data gathering, ad delivery & marketing systems that can threaten privacy, financial security, health & consumer protection.
bit.ly/3L0q9yV
bit.ly/3L0q9yV
OpenAI Browser Keeps Search, Adds Memory Benefiting Advertisers
OpenAI has launched "Atlas," its AI-powered web browser built around ChatGPT. The browser has a memory and offers agentic features that will help advertisers connect brands with consumers.
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October 22, 2025 at 3:50 PM
AI browsers--commercial surveillance via GenAI. Regulators & advocates should address agentic AI search, data gathering, ad delivery & marketing systems that can threaten privacy, financial security, health & consumer protection.
bit.ly/3L0q9yV
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Sale of Warner/Discovery/CNN should set off alarms--& it's example of how structural failures in US to regulate older & digital media led us to many of the threats to democracy we face. Many issues, inc. potential for TikTok, Paramount/CBS, Warner/CNN combine.
www.techpolicy.press/trumps-tikto...
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Trump’s TikTok Deal Would Further Entrench Big Tech Surveillance | TechPolicy.Press
Trump's TikTok deal would effectively endorse the current extractive system shaping our social media platforms, writes Jeffrey Chester.
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October 21, 2025 at 5:36 PM
Sale of Warner/Discovery/CNN should set off alarms--& it's example of how structural failures in US to regulate older & digital media led us to many of the threats to democracy we face. Many issues, inc. potential for TikTok, Paramount/CBS, Warner/CNN combine.
www.techpolicy.press/trumps-tikto...
www.techpolicy.press/trumps-tikto...
Trump Adm. #FTC #CFPB should be protecting U.S. consumers & their $ in GenAI agentic payment & marketing era. We have no confidence they are addressing the multiple problems with Gen AI and the public.
Global/state regulators should address:
See: bit.ly/4hboNNK; bit.ly/4hdXpPb
Global/state regulators should address:
See: bit.ly/4hboNNK; bit.ly/4hdXpPb
Announcing Agent Payments Protocol (AP2) | Google Cloud Blog
Learn more about the Agent Payments Protocol (AP2), an open protocol that builds on A2A, Agent to Agent Protocol. AP2 was developed by Google with leading payments and technology companies to securely...
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October 16, 2025 at 5:53 PM
Trump Adm. #FTC #CFPB should be protecting U.S. consumers & their $ in GenAI agentic payment & marketing era. We have no confidence they are addressing the multiple problems with Gen AI and the public.
Global/state regulators should address:
See: bit.ly/4hboNNK; bit.ly/4hdXpPb
Global/state regulators should address:
See: bit.ly/4hboNNK; bit.ly/4hdXpPb
With US privacy, consumerprotection & antitrust agencies sidelined, Big Data+AI+commercial surveillance marketing giants combine forces. Global regulators/advocates take note: bit.ly/478nPNL
October 15, 2025 at 5:44 PM
With US privacy, consumerprotection & antitrust agencies sidelined, Big Data+AI+commercial surveillance marketing giants combine forces. Global regulators/advocates take note: bit.ly/478nPNL
If US had a working FTC & CFPB, it would be sounding consumer protection alarm on Walmart+OpenAI deal: "Through AI-first shopping, the retail experience shifts from reactive to proactive as it learns, plans and predicts, helping customers anticipate their needs before they do." bit.ly/3L9jmTu
Walmart Partners with OpenAI to Create AI-First Shopping Experiences
Walmart’s new partnership with OpenAI will allow customers and members to shop with ChatGPT, creating an AI-first experience where shoppers can simply chat and select.
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October 14, 2025 at 5:14 PM
If US had a working FTC & CFPB, it would be sounding consumer protection alarm on Walmart+OpenAI deal: "Through AI-first shopping, the retail experience shifts from reactive to proactive as it learns, plans and predicts, helping customers anticipate their needs before they do." bit.ly/3L9jmTu