It was bound to happen. When an online flurry of complaints over behavioral targeting stoked by articles such as What They Know by The Wall Street Journal failed to morph into political currency, the Federal Communications Commission is now conceding via a new report that perhaps data-driven marketing is an elemental part of the digital economy, especially at the local level, and should be shepherded, not strangled.
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