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Leaving consumers, families, parents/kids vulnerable to GenAI tactics, while protecting #BIgTech #AI investors. They don't want any regulation safeguards as agentic AI impacts your finances, health, privacy & more. www.wired.com/story/trump-...
Trump Takes Aim at State AI Laws in Draft Executive Order
The draft order, obtained by WIRED, instructs the US Justice Department to sue states that pass laws regulating AI.
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November 21, 2025 at 5:14 PM
Leaving consumers, families, parents/kids vulnerable to GenAI tactics, while protecting #BIgTech #AI investors. They don't want any regulation safeguards as agentic AI impacts your finances, health, privacy & more. www.wired.com/story/trump-...
Congrats to @thelancet & research team. On #obesity agenda must be total transformation of UPP industry as consequence of digital & Gen AI tech within core of all their operations, including marketing. Unleashing greater capabilities on persuasion, targeting, product development, etc.
Ultra-processed foods – what’s the impact?
In a new Lancet Series, experts warn a global rise in #UPFs presents a growing public health threat.
Read the evidence & policy recommendations ⬇️
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In a new Lancet Series, experts warn a global rise in #UPFs presents a growing public health threat.
Read the evidence & policy recommendations ⬇️
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November 20, 2025 at 5:39 PM
Congrats to @thelancet & research team. On #obesity agenda must be total transformation of UPP industry as consequence of digital & Gen AI tech within core of all their operations, including marketing. Unleashing greater capabilities on persuasion, targeting, product development, etc.
Ellison @Skydance lobbying blitz as they plan to takeover @warnerbros @CNN after @ParamountPics @CBS & possible #TikTok control too. Via Politico: "first outside lobbying hire...retained Brownstein Hyatt Farber Schreck" Illustrates why US media reforms must be high on agenda.
November 19, 2025 at 5:50 PM
Ellison @Skydance lobbying blitz as they plan to takeover @warnerbros @CNN after @ParamountPics @CBS & possible #TikTok control too. Via Politico: "first outside lobbying hire...retained Brownstein Hyatt Farber Schreck" Illustrates why US media reforms must be high on agenda.
EU about to trash its digital human rights legacy; even trades see Digital Omnibus as "not just a tune-up — it is a broad re-opening of Europe’s privacy framework...[will] Accelerate AI-driven optimization and targeting...more processing could occur without explicit consent." bit.ly/4pfJZou
Ad Tech Briefing: Digital Omnibus is about to land — here’s what it means for GDPR, and the future of ad targeting
Europe's Digital Omnibus could redefine data rules — and shift power in digital advertising.
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November 18, 2025 at 7:38 PM
EU about to trash its digital human rights legacy; even trades see Digital Omnibus as "not just a tune-up — it is a broad re-opening of Europe’s privacy framework...[will] Accelerate AI-driven optimization and targeting...more processing could occur without explicit consent." bit.ly/4pfJZou
Meta ruling underscores # of issues. Regulators have been behind the ball analyzing digital marketing system. We need to push for strong data protection & GenAI use policies; bring antitrust to partnerships/alliances inc omnichannel; better enforce consumer protection online. bit.ly/4oQ7hBM
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November 18, 2025 at 6:11 PM
Meta ruling underscores # of issues. Regulators have been behind the ball analyzing digital marketing system. We need to push for strong data protection & GenAI use policies; bring antitrust to partnerships/alliances inc omnichannel; better enforce consumer protection online. bit.ly/4oQ7hBM
GenAI investments to fuel global commercial surveillance marketing economy. Google, Meta, Amazon. Financial, privacy, consumer risks while US gov't enables.
Amazon to raise $15 billion in first US bond sale in three years to fund AI push www.reuters.com/business/ret...
Amazon to raise $15 billion in first US bond sale in three years to fund AI push www.reuters.com/business/ret...
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November 18, 2025 at 5:57 PM
GenAI investments to fuel global commercial surveillance marketing economy. Google, Meta, Amazon. Financial, privacy, consumer risks while US gov't enables.
Amazon to raise $15 billion in first US bond sale in three years to fund AI push www.reuters.com/business/ret...
Amazon to raise $15 billion in first US bond sale in three years to fund AI push www.reuters.com/business/ret...
Big $, Big Tech, Big AI Data:
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House eyeing AI preemption in NDAA, Scalise says
House Republican leaders are searching for a legislative vehicle they could attach language to that would effectively ban state regulation of artificial intelligence.
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November 18, 2025 at 5:53 PM
Big $, Big Tech, Big AI Data:
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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
News
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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"
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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
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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
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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
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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...
energycommerce.house.gov
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.
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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
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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!
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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...
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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.
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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
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