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Privacy Protections Spur Companies to Collect Personal Info on Consumers, Build Profiles

PRSay

New privacy protections from tech giants and governments threaten to staunch the flow of user data that companies have long relied on to target consumers with online ads, The Wall Street Journal reports. Illustration credit: golden sikorka ].

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Blowing smoke

Stephen Waddington

A Bureau of Investigative Journalism report has criticised British American Tobacco (BAT) for targeting its products at young people, often in developing markets using emerging forms of media. You can also donate to the work of the Bureau of Investigative Journalism. billion pouches. The investor presentations are telling.

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Traditional Media: From Endangered To Extinct

Maxim Behar

In 1999, in an interview with Bulgarian online media expert Justin Toms, I declared that print newspapers would be gone by 2025. It’s not that the press was or is terrible journalism. What followed was a tsunami of anger on behalf of many press professionals. At least 100 former colleagues and friends called me or wrote me angrily. “