Pudding Looks To Watch Phone Calls For Ad Targeting

To start off with, a company doesn't have the capability to start such a service with current customers due to contracts and one major fact, the phones do not have the software built into the OS. I'm surprised everyone who has posted hasn't determined this while stating such things as class-action lawsuits and all that BS. If a pre-paid service does this, it will be apart of the service agreement you agree to to use the service.

I don't for-see a major company doing this at all. As far is people listening into your phone calls, they can do it already and are whether you like it or not. How Pudding is going to do it is all software based. But I have one question... how the hell do people see these ads when your in a phone call? Th...
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I can see the ALLTEL Chad dude doing this and dis'ing your phone company.

I have to say that this is one of the most disgusting ploys I have ever seen.

If my carrier were to do this I would drop them, ETF or anything I don't care, that is a major violation of privacy.

I don't know how they could even get away with this.

I along with other colleagues will file a class action lawsuit against our carrier which begins using this technology. Any carrier that elects to do so will loose hundreds of thousands of user's (and potentially millions in lawsuits). This is a major invasion of one's privacy.

This iiiiiiiisssssss Bill Cosby, buahhhhhhh.

Just a friendly reminder, to all the kids out there that are saying the darndest things: Have a Coke and a smile and put the chocolately deliciousness in your mouth so it goes to your stomache and your stomache says "thank you for the Jello pudding"

Buaaaaahhhhhh

J-E-LL-O

wouldn't this be considered one of those things like big brother is watching. if the cia got in trouble for it wouldn't a company named after a ice-cream wannabe, to.

Ugh. Advertising is getting out of control and I'm sick of it. Just the other day I got fed up with ads on my yahoo mail that I paid the $19.99 yearly fee to see NO ADS. Yes, the reason they put ads is for people to spend money. Yes, I spent money to see no ads requesting me to spend money. It's a lost cause for the consumer it feels. But seriously, when is enough going to be enough?

sadly its legal.

all the carriers have to do is either have an initial "line" on their activation sheet signed that documents what the intention of the signature is for & thus permits the advertising to the persons phone... or just put it in super small print at the bottom of the paper where ppl never read whats there to begin with.

I dont see this catching on with larger companies... but smaller companies that are looking to help keep themselves above water, i would think would be the interested parties... because i would believe Pudding would be paying them some sort of fee to have their database of advertisments dispursed across that companies network of phones.

I'm sure there will be some sort of "block feature" for an extra fee...
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I'm going to invent a virus protection program for cell phones and become rich.

phones are going to start running poorly and are going to require virus protection because of all of this. I guess there's even more money to be made.

I see all the angry customers already...