[LINK] ACS CEO Says Metadata for Marketing Has Merit

[Roger Clarke]

ACS CEO Andrew Johnson allowed himself to be sucked into the US world view.

It's easy to be drawn into their game, because they have such energy and enthusiasm, and the world is always going to be a better place if we just unleash our corporations' capacity to innovate, etc., etc.

Now he's returned, he'll adjust back to the rest-of-the-world and specifically Australian realities.

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At 9:41 +1100 13/1/16, Tom Worthington wrote:
>In "How metadata could make your internet cost less" (Information Age, Jan 8 2016), Thomas Shanahan reports that US Federal Trade Commissioner Ohlhausen has proposed that if ISP use metadata for marketing purposes to lower the cost of Internet access. ACS CEO Andrew Johnson is reported to have said the idea had merit: https://ia.acs.org.au/news/how-metadata-could-make-your-internet-cost-less-413375
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>Would be consumers be willing to give away their privacy for a few dollars a month off their Internet bill? Would they regret this when "Minority Report" style targeted advertising started arriving? Would their Internet bill really decrease? Does ACS support this proposal (I am a member and I don't)?
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