[dadkins]

The new FTC privacy report is certainly worth discussion, but this hit piece smells like a submarine. Had anyone ever heard of the Interactive Advertising Bureau, subtly brought into the article about half way through?

[earl]

Anybody who works in the industry has heard of them -- they're the IAB in IAB standard ad sizes, etc.

What do you mean by submarine?

[dadkins]

http://www.paulgraham.com/submarine.html

Article supplied by industry group or PR firm, passed off as original reporting.

edit: Compare it to this article in the new york times, http://www.nytimes.com/2010/12/02/business/media/02privacy.h..., three days earlier, which contains the FTC perspective, as well as comments from Google and Mozilla (and a note that Apple declined to comment).