Comments by "Brad Griffin" (@BradGryphonn) on "David Pakman Show"
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4:40 I doubt you'll see this but I really wanted to to tell you something that is similarly related to your sponsor.
Back in the early 90s, when I was but a pup of about 30, I got sucked into the Amway 'networking' game. One of our 'uplines' worked in life insurance, and had access to electoral roles for business purposes. He would use them to cold call potential insurance customers (we're talking AMP here). But he also used them to target potential people in particular demographics to schill Amway at them. Obviously, this was before the Internet and mobile phones were commonplace.
Going further back, I once worked for an agency that sold magazine ad space over the phone in the 70s. We would scour the Yellow Pages, the paper versions of course (1977/8). So, would have phone books for nearly every town and city in Australia that we could source, purely to cold-call potential clients.
In the late 90s, I got into computer tech, and particularly computer security. I lived through the great takeover of the WWW by advertisers and marketing agencies, and the rise of Internet worms, copycat viruses etc etc.
Yeah, in terms of data harvesting, nothing much has changed, except for the ease of, and speed of access to said data.
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