Ponchik News: Design+ Strategy

Doc Searls of Harvard on new EU regulation, GDPR (that thing every website is changing their privacy policy for) and its likely massive effect on what we call AdTech (tracking your activity without much of your consent to sell it to advertisers).

«The main problem: tracking people without their knowledge, approval or a court order is just flat-out wrong. The fact that it can be done is no excuse. Nor is the monstrous sum of money made by it.

[…]Adtech spies on people and violates their privacy. By design. Never mind that you and your browser or app are anonymized. The ads are still for your eyeballs, and correlations can be made. […] Adtech has caused the largest boycott in human history. By more than a year ago, 1.7+ billion human beings were already blocking ads online. […] When customers can operate both privately and independently, we’ll get far better markets than today’s ethically bankrupt advertising and marketing system could ever give us.» https://blogs.harvard.edu/doc/2018/05/12/gdpr/