IMMI tracks ad exposure / effectiveness via cellphone, trips privacy alarms everywhere
Hunker down and find that tin foil cap, pronto! Privacy advocates, we've a new target for you to bang on: Integrated Media Measurement. The 4,900-person media research company is looking to take advertising measurement to a whole new level (or new low, as it were) by embedding tracking modules within cellphones. In short, the module picks up audio from ads and records information about the exposure; in the future, if you were to purchase whatever product you heard about (like seeing a movie that was plugged), it would register a hit and deem you a sucker. As of now, the only testers with these freaky phones are individuals who signed up for this stuff, but you better believe major marketing firms (and TV / movie studios in particular) are perking their ears up and begging to know more.[Image courtesy of Corbis, thanks ugotamesij]
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Reader Comments (Page 1 of 1)
J.Goodwin @ Oct 15th 2008 11:58PM
You know, there has to be something criminal about sending 4,900 mobile wiretaps around recording everything that goes on around them.