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A Chicago family recently received a promotional mailer from OfficeMax addressed to "Mike Seay/Daughter Killed in Car Crash/Or Current Business." The Seay family lost their daughter less than a year earlier.
Including "daughter killed in car crash" wording on the envelope was obviously a mistake, but the issue is far bigger than a typo. Having that sensitive data to begin with reveals the inner workings of data brokers and consumer targeting. This is the ugly side of Big Data. Increasing troves of personal data (including sensitive life stage events) are tracked by data brokers to fuel marketing campaigns. Recent Congressional testimony showed that data brokers even sell lists of rape victims and AIDS patients.
These may be extreme cases, but I think marketers need to clearly draw the line on how they plan to use customer data. In the pursuit of creating relevant advertising, marketers are walking a tricky tightrope on consumer privacy.
Here's how Macy's VP of customer strategy, Julie Bernard, framed the issue:
"Consumers are worried about our use of data, but they're pissed if I don't deliver relevance… How am I supposed to deliver relevance and magically deliver what they want if I don't look at the data?"
There's a legislative movement in the US to limit corporate access to personal data. However government regulation ultimately plays out, I think there's an opportunity for marketers to take the high road.
As Julie Bernard puts it, "I could just track every phone that came into Macy's without announcing to people. Just because you can doesn't mean you should."
I'd love to hear your thoughts and experiences navigating personal data in marketing.
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It's so useful to get served relevant content when it helps us as consumers.
But there also has to be trust. Think amazon.com for example. The site does a very nice job serving us data (products) that are relevant. I trust them. Mostly because I have not heard a reason why I shouldn't and because Amazon serves me relevant products.
And of course I signed up for an account voluntarily.
Great post, Tom! The first two things that came to my mind whilst reading were, in fact, two apps. "Whisper" and "Over the Shoulder". The former: a place to share uncensored comments about everything in your life (including brands, of course); The latter: (I quote) "a tool that provides unprecidented access into consumers everyday lives". Meaning once installed it will track your journeys during a day and prompt you for feedback (and feelings). While sign-up + consent is required, I imagine it will not take long until major social media sites will integrate this as an embedded feature, making rating (or feedback giving) as well as personal data disclosure mandatory for free service. So another ugly side to Big Data… And it will only get more rude.
There is much talk of the 'creepy line' in marketing, and Google's Eric Schmidt famously said it was Google policy to get right up to it.
The problem is that where Eric draws the creepy line is very different to where I would for myself.
There is nothing inherently wrong with the practice of consumer targeting of course, the problem in my mind is that it is mostly hidden, and as the example illustrates, the methods can sometimes be highly questionable.
To me the answer of balancing personalisation with privacy is permission. Marketers would do well to be more transparent about what they do, get permission from consumers to do it, and then make sure they get it right – deliver personalisation that does benefit consumers.
This is especially needed online – where every click can be used to build a profile.
There is much talk about consumer 'engagement' in marketing circles – but until that engagement starts with permission, it looks to most people a lot like what it is – a euphemism for 'tracking you as much as possible'.
The question that needs to be asked here is "what EXACTLY am I using this data for?"
As I read the excerpt, I struggle to understand how this family's tragedy had any relevance to OfficeMax! I'm also confident that the mailer itself did not have any unique content tailored to this family's particular circumstance.
From my perception, most of this data is simply being used for micro-targeting which is highly inefficient for most businesses.
If your strategy dictates targeting at this level, and you decide to go down the road of purchasing data at this level, then the content and the product should have true relevance to the consumer that you are targeting.
Otherwise, it is at best, an inefficient spend and at worst, a breech of the consumer's trust and an invasion of their privacy.
You need to use data, but not be obvious about it. People don't have time to think about your ad and try to figure if it abuses their privacy or not. You're lucky if they notice your ad at all.
Relevance without common sense is fruitless.
Another great Marketoon.
Ditto Richard Beaumont's excellent observations above on the 'creepy line' and the rise of non-permissioned marketing.
If marketers want to collect your data, they should pay for it.
They should 'subscribe' to the 'Big Me', i.e. my lifetime value to them as a customer.
Unfortunately, as long as Wall Street is there in the background looking for the next big 'marketing technology' hit, that will never happen.
I think the biggest problem is that they are using the data with no safeguards as to what's being put out there.
The architectural firm I worked for years ago did a big data project once a year. We would order a list of schools that met the criteria for our firm and then we would go through all the entries, making sure the addresses were correct (at least 10% were usually out of date), making sure the people's names were spelled correctly (thank you, school district websites!), and generally making sure there was nothing idiotic on them (i.e. women's names with a Mr., men's names with a Ms., etc.).
Every time I see one of these mistakes happen like with Mr. Seay's daughter, I wonder, do people even stop to check these big mailing lists now? Or do they just let them go, assuming the big data companies will do it for them? There's not a system of checks and balances built into the system to make sure that the data is accurate, appropriate, and ready to go. One hand assumes the other hand is covering the leak in the boat, so to speak.
We as marketers should not have this type of inaccuracy leading to inefficiency, and, as in this case, offensiveness to our potential customers.
Marketing without morals. Disgusting but becoming the norm.
An interesting and relevant marketoon.
I was fascinated by the Target example Charles Duhigg outlined in his book The Power of Habit. Target's pregnancy prediction score was effective at identifying pregnant women and triggering coupon mailers – which were sent to a teenage girl. Her father was furious until he had a talk with his daughter and found out, "there's been some activities in my house I haven't been completely aware of."
Target statistician Andrew Pole commented, "We are very conservative about compliance with all privacy laws. But even if you're following the law, you can do things where people get queasy."
The new policy mixes coupons for expecting parents randomly with non-baby items. Target found ". . . as long as a pregnant woman thinks she hasn't been spied on, she'll use the coupons. She just assumes that everyone else on her block got the same mailer for diapers and cribs. As long as we don't spook her, it works."
So, the solution for Target was to avoid being obvious, but not fully transparent / permission based.
The book suggests that Target's revenue growth went from $44 billion in 2002, when Pole was hired, to $67 billion in 2010 was in part attributable to Pole's work capturing the expecting parent market.
Is this behavior questionable? I see arguments on both sides.
Why should data, like spam and telemarketing, not be an opt-in? Consumers "pissed that you don't deliver relevance" without having established some direct relationship and data-trust are probably pissed that you are delivering anything unsolicited at all. Blaming data is not a laudable excuse for being a nuisance.


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The secretive world of cold war espionage emerged from the shadows this week with the release of more than 3,000 previously classified documents.
Thirty years after Justice Robert Hope's royal commission into Australia's spy agencies, the 3,357 pages released for public scrutiny by the National Archives revealed a domestic spy agency riven by gossip and cliques, unable to catch enemy spies and incapable of keeping proper records.
"ASIO could not be taken seriously as an efficient organisation, still less an effective security organisation," Hope wrote in one report.
"I found in ASIO's files cases of officers who were victimised for supposed misdeeds."
"I found, too, evidence of favouritism, even nepotism, over many years. Promotions were made arbitrarily without cause shown."
Worse - Hope suggested ASIO may have been infiltrated by the enemy.
"ASIO may be, or may have been, penetrated by a hostile intelligence service," one of the previously classified documents said.
"Many of the more thoughtful and responsible ASIO officers who gave evidence before me sought an opportunity to voice their fears of a penetration."
In the 1970s the Australian Intelligence Security Organisation, or ASIO as it is more commonly known, was focusing intently on home-grown leftists and failing to do its real job of catching locally-based Soviet spies, Hope wrote.
When Gough Whitlam won office in 1972 he took action after years of mutual suspicion between Labor and ASIO.
On March 16, 1973, Attorney-General Lionel Murphy, under the full glare of the media, went to ASIO's Melbourne headquarters and demanded to see documents about a group of Australian-based Croatian terrorists called the Ustasha.
Murphy believed the spies had been withholding information from him.
In the wake of what history labelled the "Murphy Raids", Whitlam called on Hope to conduct a wide-ranging royal commission into ASIO and a host of other spy agencies, including the foreign spy service the Australian Secret Intelligence Service or ASIS.
George Brownbill was the royal commission's secretary and this week he was on-hand as the documents he had not seen in 30 years were unveiled.
"I must say that when I consigned the Royal Commission into Intelligence Services records to the department I did not expect 30 years later to be talking about them and the work of two-and-a-half-years that they represent," Brownbill said.
The man who came to know most of the great secrets of Australian espionage talked openly about the mutual distrust of the cold war, his boss and, of course, ASIO.
Even setting up an office for the commission was a mission in suspicion.
"I asked ASIO to install a secure electronic perimeter (at the office), just to be on the safe side, however, I got the special operations people from ASIS to put in another inside the ASIO one," Brownbill said.
And he even gave up one of his own secrets.
"I announce today that Bob Hope was in line to be appointed to the High Court but the late Justice Murphy asserted claims to the vacancy which the cabinet of the day did not resist."
It was one tantalising secret on a day filled with the wide eyes of historians and journalists having questions answered for the first time.
Hope wrote eight reports in total, some of them four volumes in length.
The fifth series deals with the ultra-secretive ASIS, a body that had its very existence denied by the federal government until 1977.
While scores of pages remain blacked out, the information still too sensitive to reveal, the ASIS report shows something of the lengths the organisation went to in keeping itself secret.
A special tax office staffer was appointed to file the tax returns of ASIS operatives and all the records were kept at ASIS headquarters.
Group certificates were never issued to the spies because an organisation that didn't exist could hardly exist as a group employer.
And funding for the body was hidden inside the Department of External Affairs, later renamed the Department of Foreign Affairs.
Hope recommended the existence of ASIS be recognised.
In 1977, Liberal prime minister Malcolm Fraser did just that.
It was one of the many recommendations implemented by government.
Thirty years on, ASIO's director general Paul O'Sullivan told an assembled crowd of academics, journalists and intelligence officers that much had changed.
"Many of his (Hope's) recommendations were accepted, implemented and have endured to this day," O'Sullivan said.
Indeed, the entire intelligence community now has what O'Sullivan described as an in-house "24-7 royal commission" - the Inspector General of Intelligence and Security.
Mr O'Sullivan or his predecessor will be back at the archives in 2014 when the documents from Hope's second royal commission may be released and yet more secrets thrown into the light.
Until then, there are 3,357 pages to pore over.


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Manesquan is an easy inlet due to the lack of shoals unlike most of the NJ inlets. We have taken our sailboat in there a number of times. You are right about the first RR bridge being a doozy with current. We got fuel once at Hoomans right before it and soon as we cast off it almost slammed us into hat bridge .
You would love the ride up the East Rive we take too Long Soind every year. It's quite n eye opener in a slow sailboat. We also have stayed a few nights at Liberty Landing. Lass marina with a killer view. Nice restaurant too. The high speed ferry from there to Mahattan leaves you off a short walk to where the Twin towers used to be.
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St. Louis Plastic Surgeon Michelle Koo has launched a new website to showcase her practice for her existing patients and potential new patients in St. Louis, Missouri. Dr. Michelle Koo is a Board Certified plastic surgeon with an exceptional eye for detail and is meticulous about achieving the perfect individualized results for all of her patients.
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St. Louis Plastic Surgeon Dr. Michelle Koo launched her new website to showcase her practice in a new, informative, and revamped structure that will keep her existing and potential new patients informed on the plastic surgery procedures she offers.
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So, I have pieced together the story of my family's naturalization in the USA. My great-grandfather was born in Italy and came to america in 1920. He naturalized in Ohio in 1930, five years after my grandmother was born. My father was born in 1957, and so we are all eligible for citizenship. Since we all live in Ohio, we'll be applying through the Chicago consulate.
My grandmother is still alive, but at the age of 88, is in no position mentally or physically to go to Chicago or carry out the application process. Is it possible for my father to apply using her genealogy and presenting her vital records, but without her attending? We're all very eager to go through the process, but it's just not feasible for her to participate. Is this going to be a problem in Chicago?
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All of this "who's gonna play Christian Grey" frenzy could be solved in an instant if the producers would just listen to me. I'm telling you, Ian Somerhalder is Christian Grey.
All of this "who's gonna play Christian Grey" frenzy could be solved in an instant if the producers would just listen to me. I'm telling you, Ian Somerhalder is Christian Grey.
Isn't life grand? Back a few years back, all cell phone numbers were released to telemarketing companies. This morning I received the good word that I won a 12 night cruise and I could find out more if I pushed a number on my phone. Fake contest. You bet. I haven't entered a contest in some time.
I'm beginning to think there is something in the Nashville water supply. It seems there is a quarrel a week in Music City. I mean, why doesn't everyone chill a bit, hold hands and do a chorus or two of 'Kumbaya!'
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I am loving Binghamton Restaurant Week but I'm not liking rude people that don't have any consideration when they are out to dinner with their cell phones.
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I hosted a morning show at a radio station in Vermont. We'd just come out of the news and I went to the kitchen to refill my coffee when I heard Don Imus on the kitchen radio say that there were reports that a plane had flown into one of the twin towers. I thought he must have been mistaken.
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"In the (infantry) field, very little if anything translates to our traditional careers in the United States, unless you are doing mercenary work or State Department stuff. I looked at my resume, and they try to doctor it up to transition you. But in reality the private sector knows what they need to be looking for. They can cut through the fluff," said Sanchez, now 36.
"I was like, I've got to go to school."
He attended San Diego State and got business and communications degrees, which allowed him to get white-collar jobs. It also earned him the business know-how to eventually launch his own venture as a motivational speaker.
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Speaking for Home Depot, he said, "It is enough for us."
At Xerox, a former rifleman might start in a call center, said Jim Heidrich, the company's senior vice president of global staffing and talent acquisition.
A former Marine colonel, Heidrich tells Xerox hiring managers that teaching a veteran whatever specific skill he or she needs for a job is easier than trying to teach someone else leadership.
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The state today celebrates the birth anniversary of its bravest son, Chhatrapati Shivajiraje Bhosale. While political parties will stake claim to the warrior king and come forth to celebrate the occasion, the common man and even descendants of Shivaji feel the celebrations are just a show.
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The bahujan samaj alleges that interference by Brahmins in distorting Shivaji's history is responsible for limiting his legacy. "The fact is that Shivaji was truly secular, he was never anti-Muslim," said Jagdish Nagarkar of the Phule Ambedkar Vichar Manch. "Shivaji was deliberately injured and killed by Krishnaji Bhaskar, whose real surname was Kulkarni. This is never brought out before the public. The fact that the writing of history was restricted to members of one community is no surprise. Hence our youth knows only distorted history."
The outcome of the conflict in the depiction of history is that some, like the Sambhaji Brigade, a bahujan organisation, has been demanding that history be rewritten. "Politicians fight on caste lines and believe in caste discrimination using Shivaji's name," said Sachin Godambe, a thinker associated with the brigade.
"Parties that have staked claim to Maharaj, like the Shiv Sena, have not let Shivaji's real values spread to the people. We have one school of thought for Babasaheb Ambedkar, which is not the case with Shivaji Maharaj's ideals."
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BOISE -- The Boise National Forest dropped 100,000 gallons of fire retardant on the Trinity Ridge Fire Saturday, but even that failed to hold the line by Sunday.
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It just demonstrates how dry the fuels are and how hot this fire is actually burning, said Olson.
Sunday at the Boise District Office, firefighters packed into a room to explore the situation.
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The fuel type that we have here has a tendency to torch the trees, which throw off hundreds if not thousands of embers and they float through the sky and they land outside of any fire line you try to build, said Olson.
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The Boise National Forest even brought in additional manpower.
The whole goal of fighting fire is to initial attack as quickly as you possibly can and keep the fire as small as you can so if you have those extra resources to fight the fire you are in a better position, said Olson.
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It s actually drier this year than it was in 2006 and 2007, said Olson. So, it really demonstrates the challenges that we are going to be facing.
Although, there are no structures in its path now, fire officials know how quickly things can change. The terrain and the type of fuel the fire is burning in don't help either.
Folks just need to understand that the forests are very dry and we are doing everything we can to not get a new fire start, said Olson.
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Say my bill is $100 right now (1 bedroom apt) what would it be growing two plants with the lights fans etc.? Just an estimate is what Im looking for, thanks!
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How much electricity would growing two plants use?
Say my bill is 0 right now (1 bedroom apt) what would it be growing two plants with the lights fans...
Posted 27 April 2013 - 06:59 PM
say if i run all cfls? Those are the least energy consuming right?
Posted 27 April 2013 - 07:05 PM
It really comes down to what you want to get from it. CFL's generally consume the least, but won't give you as much bud as an HID. It's really up to you, but I can't really help with CFL's.I don't use them, and it still depends on way too much. Depends what CFL's, how many CFL's, how many plants will decide that, but again, it really just depends. At minimum look to have AT LEAST 100W of ACTUAL cfl WATTAGE for the first plant, and about 50 for each extra. So maybe 1 plant with 4 or 5 23W CFL's could work, but I'm not into them. I think it's a waste, and if I"m going to take the time to grow I'd just assume get a big yield.
Posted 27 April 2013 - 07:09 PM
Are HIDs the top of the line? Theyre just so expensive.. what would be the next best light to use? How much do you think the whole setup would be to grow two plants?
Posted 27 April 2013 - 07:14 PM
Dude, I really can't talk much about other lights. I have a 1000W Mh/HPS because if I'm going to grow I'd rather do it right and get as much bud as I can so I don't have to grow constantly. As for other lights, IDK, I've never used anything but the 1000W and a small CFL for seedlings/clones just because the big light is too much for them. Honestly though, for a couple plants I'd try to go with a 250W MH/HPS. Couldn't find one but here's a 400W for under $140. It's dimmable so you can turn it down to 50% and use it for 2 plants, but could probably do up to 4 or 5 if you ran it full blast. I just think those are smarter compared to CFL's. There's a little heat, but if you can keep the temp cool, then HID's (MH/HPS lights) are the way to go. Would need a timer with this one though, but those are only another $8.
http://www.amazon.co...ords=250 mh/hps
http://www.amazon.co...ords=250 mh/hps
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Posted 27 April 2013 - 07:38 PM
Ok, so check it out- I found this bulb on Craigslist for $25, yay or nay?
Hortilux Super HPS 600 Watt
Hortilux Super HPS 600 Watt
Posted 27 April 2013 - 07:42 PM
Ok, so check it out- I found this bulb on Craigslist for $25, yay or nay?
Hortilux Super HPS 600 Watt
Not sure what you're talking about. That link is to a bulb that is $75 and it's only a bulb, not the whole set up. If you go with HID I'd get one that can run both MH and HPS.
Posted 27 April 2013 - 07:42 PM
Note that you'll probably need a couple fans and a carbon filter for the smell/heat.
Posted 27 April 2013 - 07:47 PM
Yeah I was just showing you the bulb, not the craigslist ad. If I get that bulb would I just need the wiring to light it up and stick it on the top of the grow box? Im a little confused, sorry for being such a noob
Posted 27 April 2013 - 07:51 PM
No, to run those you need the light/hood/ballast. That link I put has everything included except a timer. Look at that ad and it will at least let you know what you'd need. To run these lights though they come with a ballast that powers it, the hood that houses the light, and the bulb itself that lights up. Also, the hangers, and various other things are needed. That kit has all of it except timer, so you can at least see what you'll need. Then just hang the light from the ceiling with those hangers it comes with so you can move it up and down easily.
Posted 27 April 2013 - 07:58 PM
Ok, so if I get this kit my lighting needs will be covered and the lights that come with it are powerful enough to grow at least two plants?
Posted 27 April 2013 - 08:03 PM
Ok, so if I get this kit my lighting needs will be covered and the lights that come with it are powerful enough to grow at least two plants?
Well, that 400 W could probably handle around 4 or 5 plants maybe depending on the size. If you got that one and only wanted to do 2 plants just turn it down to 50% (IE 200W) and that will be fine for 2 plants and you'll have the option to do a few more if you want. Plan on getting a fan/filter for the smell/heat and probably another small fan to keep fresh air blowing inside. you don't want it getting really hot in there. Just depends on the area you'll be growing in. If you get it I'd suggest setting it up and running it first to get temps where they should be, THEN start your grow. Trying to adjust on the fly can be tough. It's doable, but if you're a newb it can be difficult to figure out what you need.
Posted 27 April 2013 - 08:07 PM
Re-read the thread and found my answer, Ill look in to getting that setup. You helped me a ton thanks a bunch
Posted 28 April 2013 - 12:32 AM
Well, with me I run multiple thousands over six plants so it costs alot... Lol
But I get alot out of those six plants too.
But I get alot out of those six plants too.
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