Are Ads Getting Too Personal?

Big Brother isn’t just watching you. He’s also trying to sell you something. A 2009 survey conducted by the University of Pennsylvania and the University of California, Berkeley found that two-thirds of participants opposed the idea of targeted ads. And it’s no longer about you falling into a general category and being sent ads that […]

The Day My Mother Got Facebook

It was a day like any other. I woke up, got ready for work, checked the ‘vitals’ on my iPhone; BBC News, Hotmail, Facebook. And there it was, staring right back at me in (appropriately) black and blue; ‘You have a friend request from Caroline F.’ This was no longer a day like any other. […]