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An online consumer watchdog group is asking the CFPB (Consumer Financial Protection Bureau) to restrict and further regulate online ads that utilize “behavioral modeling”. Are ads that are targeted to specific online consumer deceptive or abusive in themselves?
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If legislation or regulation such as you described were to come to pass, then I would suggest that Tony the Tiger, Pebbles and Bam Bam had better be removed from cereal boxes (I think I am dating myself here) and beautiful young girls should be removed from all shiny macho sports car ads. Perhaps the famous tag line “I’ve fallen and I can’t get up” should feature a three year old, a tricycle and a scraped knee. Aside from considerations of constitutionally protected rights of free speech to WHOMEVER, the concept of “no-target marketing” is ludicrous.
Pat,
Good ‘tongue-in-cheek” observations. It’s a slippery slope when it comes to regulation? Where does control of targeted ads stop? All ads are targeted to a specific segment. Thanks for participating in the discussion.