So did David Carroll, the American media professor who helped to break the Facebook and Cambridge Analytica scandal this year in the UK. “The Spinner is surveillance capitalism in its purest… The Spinner is surveillance capitalism’s Martin Shkreli moment.”ĭoc Searls, an adtech critic and the editor of Linux Journal, condemned the idea on Twitter. “We should all be thanking the Valley Bros that made The Spinner – it might just be what it takes for folks to sit up and take note of (a) how this crap works (b) what it is designed to do (c) how fucked up it all is,” Aral Balkan, a self-described cyborg rights activist, added. What about the stories I write or who I am as a human being would make you think I wanna write about this?” She wrote: “This is by far the creepiest and worst pitch I've ever gotten. Maya Kosoff, a tech writer for Vanity Fair and The Hive, tweeted on 9 July that an "Elliott" – see below – pitched her on the company. Then, whenever the wife browses news websites, she will see articles supplied by The Spinner such as “3 Reasons Why You Should Initiate Sex With Your Husband.” When the wife clicks on the link, a cookie is downloaded to the her phone.
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He then sends the URL in a text message to his wife (with, presumably, some cover story).
#SEXUAL SUBLIMINAL MESSAGES CODE#
The primary example that the company highlights is that husbands can subliminally convince their wives to initiate sex more often.īased on the company’s website, the basic idea is that a husband pays $29 and then receives a shortened URL with a tracking code that is linked to a cookie. The Spinner purports to let individuals influence the behaviour of others through tracking that displays tailored news articles on websites that the targets visit.
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But there is a new – alleged – platform that embodies the worst of where surveillance marketing can lead. For better or worse, most consumers seem to accept it.
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This is 2018, so we all know today how marketers and tech companies use online tracking to deliver direct response and sell personal data.