{"id":18110,"date":"2012-12-09T11:02:54","date_gmt":"2012-12-09T16:02:54","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/?p=18110"},"modified":"2012-12-09T11:02:54","modified_gmt":"2012-12-09T16:02:54","slug":"verizon-attempts-to-patent-creepy-targeted-ad-delivery-technology","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/2012\/12\/09\/verizon-attempts-to-patent-creepy-targeted-ad-delivery-technology\/","title":{"rendered":"Verizon attempts to patent creepy targeted ad delivery technology"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Verizon wants your TV to <a href=\"http:\/\/www.pcworld.com\/article\/2019182\/verizon-patent-application-for-tv-snooping-tech-rejected.html\" target=\"_blank\">carefully observe you<\/a> so it can deliver ads tailored for whatever activity you might be doing:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>The U.S. Patent Office has delivered a \u201cnon-final\u201d rejection of a Verizon patent application for a controversial technology that would have served targeted ads to TV viewers based on what they might be doing or saying in front of their sets.<\/p>\n<p>[. . .]<\/p>\n<p>The patent in question has been the subject of intense media scrutiny since <em>FierceCable<\/em> uncovered it last week. Verizon\u2019s somewhat laboriously titled the patent application \u201cMethods and Systems for Presenting an Advertisement Associated with an Ambient Action of a Use.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The application says the technology would be capable of triggering different advertisements depending on whether a viewer or viewers might be eating, playing, cuddling, laughing, singing, fighting or gesturing in front of their sets. Specifically, the patent covers technology that can serve ads \u201c\u2026targeted to the user based on what the user is doing, who the user is, the user\u2019s surroundings, and\/or any other suitable information associated with the user.\u201d<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Privacy? You don&#8217;t need that, because we need to <em>sell you shit<\/em>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Verizon wants your TV to carefully observe you so it can deliver ads tailored for whatever activity you might be doing: The U.S. Patent Office has delivered a \u201cnon-final\u201d rejection of a Verizon patent application for a controversial technology that would have served targeted ads to TV viewers based on what they might be doing [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[831,28,15],"tags":[380,154,101],"class_list":["post-18110","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-business","category-media","category-technology","tag-patents","tag-privacy","tag-tv"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p2hpV6-4I6","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18110","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=18110"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18110\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":18111,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18110\/revisions\/18111"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=18110"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=18110"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=18110"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}