Number of Posts: 5
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YouTube battles ISIS with a redirect strategy
Newspaper | Washington Post
Date | 25.7.2017
Language | English
Country | U.S.
Topic Tags | marketing, politics, threat, YouTube
Summary | YouTube is redirecting people who search for extremist materials to videos that show the pain terrorism causes in order to act against new people getting radicalized. While this may be a useful strategy, it is problematic that this move was incited by companies. YouTube had been struggling with advertisers pulling their ads from controversial videos.
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The 'empowered consumer' doesn't get much say
Newspaper | Washington Post
Date | 16.4.2017
Language | English
Country | U.S.
Topic Tags | marketing, privacy, social media, threat
Summary | The perceived multiplication of choices in consumer culture, for example when buying a plane ticket (optional luggage fees, insurance fees, prioritized boarding fees, etc.), just looks like an advantage for the consumer on the surface. In the end, we end up paying more and giving away our data. The data will in turn be used to milk consumers even further by knowing to which advertisements they are particularly susceptible.
Image Description | Airport check-in area.
Image Tags | female(s), male(s)
Justice Dept. calls Apple's encryption fight 'a diversion'
Newspaper | Washington Post
Date | 10.3.2016
Language | English
Country | U.S.
Topic Tags | law, marketing, privacy, smartphone, threat
Summary | Ever since the FBI asked Apple to unlock a terrorist's iPhone, a huge debate around user privacy has ensued. Other tech companies side with Apple with the position that aiding the FBI at the expense of user privacy would open the gate for masses of future cases. The Justice Department however accuses Apple of purposefully making unbreachable smartphones, which may be good for user privacy (and thus for profit) but a huge problem for the police to be able to investigate criminal cases.
Image Description | Hand holding an iPhone.
Image Tags | hand(s), smartphone
The rise of Uber means less love for London’s traditional black cabs
Newspaper | Washington Post
Date | 1.1.2016
Language | English
Country | U.S.
Topic Tags | marketing, smartphone, threat
Summary | The app Uber is taking up much of official taxi companies' business. The iconinc London cab is endangered. Uber offers much cheaper rides than taxi cabs because the drivers do not have to go through any training - they just use their smartphone's GPS to drive customers. Customers also use their smartphone apps to hail an Uber ride.
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I have seen the future, and it looks like chatbots
Newspaper | Washington Post
Date | 18.4.2016
Language | English
Country | U.S.
Topic Tags | artificial intelligence, marketing, texting
Summary | Chatbots are robots that simulate human conversations; they are becoming popular among retailers who use them for online shopping. For instance, Sephora and H&M have been using bots that help customers buy their products. Experts predict that bots will be at the center of our digital life in the future. People at Silicon Valley are now trying to develop new concepts to integrate bots into messaging apps.
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