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Privacy isn’t necessarily a good thing

Stephen Waddington

While that may be good for personal privacy, it’s a threat to public conversation. Facebook’s big play at its F8 developer conference this year was privacy. Personal privacy and security strikes at the core of Facebook’s proposition. Whatever your view of personal privacy it’s hard to argue that this is a good thing.

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Voice moves from awareness to application

Stephen Waddington

Apple’s Siri launched in 2011, Google’s Voice Search in 2012, and Amazon’s Alexa in 2013. Privacy is the biggest concern for the public, with four in ten consumers who don’t use voice assistance stating it as the main reason they have not adopted use. A third of UK consumers use voice assistants daily.

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Tech Trends Media Didn’t Care About In 2018

ImPRessions - Crenshaw Communications

Also, as the IoT category has matured, security and privacy have become key concerns. Oculus Rift , which famously launched on Kickstarter in 2012 and broke records, was an anomaly, not the norm. Media thought they were intriguing IoT applications and often had great visuals for a story, even if not very practical.

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Journalists Less Skeptical, More Reliant on Social Media

Cision

Yet, with rising concerns over privacy and security and major fundamental changes in the way the digital world works, more than half of journalists believe social media undermines the value of their profession. Compared to 2012, last year the number of skeptic or novice users dropped 7 percentage points, from 31 percent to 24 percent.

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Leveson Inquiry archive important contribution to debate and education on media ethics

Stephen Waddington

The Inquiry published the Leveson Report in November 2012 which made recommendations for a new, independent, body to replace the Press Complaints Commission. There are short essays on each of the key themes raised by the Inquiry including privacy, regulation, phone hacking and the internet, all pointing to key evidence.

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Letter from Middlesbrough: 13 lessons from Mary Meeker’s 2019 report

Stephen Waddington

4 Auto advertising The use of programmatic ad buying has grown from 10% of digital display advertising revenue in 2012 to 62% in 2018. The conversation about user privacy is growing louder. Platforms are attempting to get ahead of the issue by improving privacy management. Regulators are mandating policy such as GDPR in the EU.

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Oh, Come on, Charlie Brown! Let Google Hold the Football for You [Google+]

Sword and the Script

Some time around 2012, I attended a marketing conference downtown in Washington, DC. This means the broken promise of Google+ is interwoven with all sorts of related interests such as the veracity in analytics , brand safety and data privacy concerns. His message? In the next five years, he said, Google+ will be Google.

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