{"id":13702,"date":"2025-04-03T11:59:24","date_gmt":"2025-04-03T18:59:24","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/?p=13702"},"modified":"2025-04-17T12:00:55","modified_gmt":"2025-04-17T19:00:55","slug":"they-own-us","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/2025\/04\/03\/they-own-us\/","title":{"rendered":"They Own Us"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><em><a href=\"https:\/\/gizmodo.com\/data-broker-brags-about-having-highly-detailed-personal-information-on-nearly-all-internet-users-2000575762\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">from Gizmodo<\/a><\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<h1 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Data Broker Brags About Having Highly Detailed Personal Information on Nearly All Internet Users<\/h1>\n\n\n\n<p>The advertising industry is immensely powerful, and disturbingly opaque.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>By&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/gizmodo.com\/author\/lropek\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Lucas Ropek<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed is-type-video is-provider-youtube wp-block-embed-youtube wp-embed-aspect-16-9 wp-has-aspect-ratio\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"CoreAI\" width=\"1080\" height=\"608\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/YCsE0VbH3vI?start=2&#038;feature=oembed\"  allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe>\n<\/div><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>The owner of a data brokerage business recently put out a creepy-ass video in which he bragged about the degree to which his industry could collect and analyze data on the habits of billions of people.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>In 2019, the data broker Epsilon&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.publicisgroupe.com\/en\/news\/press-releases\/publicis-groupe-to-acquire-epsilon\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">was acquired<\/a>&nbsp;by French advertising conglomerate Publicis Groupe. Then, earlier this month, Publicis also acquired Lotame, another data and advertising firm, and announced it&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.adweek.com\/agencies\/inside-publicis-groupes-surprise-acquisition-of-id-business-lotame\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">plans to integrate<\/a> it with Epsilon\u2019s business. At the time, Publicis CEO Arthur Sadoun said that the new corporate integration would allow his company to deliver \u201cpersonalized messaging at scale\u201d to some 91 percent of the internet\u2019s adult web users.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>[ <a href=\"https:\/\/gizmodo.com\/data-broker-brags-about-having-highly-detailed-personal-information-on-nearly-all-internet-users-2000575762\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">click to continue reading at Gizmodo<\/a> ]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>from Gizmodo Data Broker Brags About Having Highly Detailed Personal Information on Nearly All Internet Users The advertising industry is immensely powerful, and disturbingly opaque. By&nbsp;Lucas Ropek The owner of a data brokerage business recently put out a creepy-ass video in which he bragged about the degree to which his industry could collect and analyze [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-13702","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-weirdness"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13702","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=13702"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13702\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=13702"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=13702"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=13702"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}