CS101 Lecture Notes - Lecture 12: Vance Packard, Personal Information Protection And Electronic Documents Act, Apotheosis
27 Jul 2018
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Freak out about children and television in the 60s and 70s- individual kids info cannot be used to market or sold, but aggregate data can and is. The first stern electronic data was bound in vicinity of government. Pipeda- implemented in charges from 2001-2004- it has several principles like accountability, consent, motive, etc. He wrote a popular book that people bought and read which was about the advertising industry. He was a cultural critic, journalist and writer and one of the first few people who took really seriously the consequences of the advertising industry taking off. The waster makers was also a very popular book he published later. The replacement revolution encourages people to replace things they already own by encouraging people to throw things away . As a consumer society reached its apparent apotheosis in the us the task for business was to sell us things we already had.
