The FTC Takes On Targeted Web Ads

[b]The FTC Takes On Targeted Web Ads[/b] Jon Leibowitz, Obama's top consumer watchdog, hints that he's losing patience with the behavioral-targeting practices of Internet marketers By Douglas MacMillan

On a side table in his Washington offices, Federal Trade Commission Chairman Jon Leibowitz keeps a framed image of Arnold Schwarzenegger from the 1984 film The Terminator. It was given to Leibowitz a couple of years ago by one of the FTC’s regional offices, an homage to his crackdown on spyware that surreptitiously gathers information on Web users’ surfing habits.

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