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[privacy] Which ISPs "kiss & tell"?
From: "Richard M. Smith" <rms () computerbytesman com>
Date: Fri, 16 Mar 2007 22:30:21 -0400
ISPs May Be <http://slashdot.org/articles/07/03/16/1958211.shtml> Selling Your Web Clicks Posted by Zonk <http://slashdot.org/~Zonk/> on Friday March 16, @05:16PM from the hey-those-are-mine dept. <http://slashdot.org/search.pl?tid=187> Businesses Mozzarella writes "Could our ISPs be selling our click data without us even knowing it? It seems like the practice is happening a lot more than we realize, and can be tracked for each user. Complete Incorporated's CTO David Cancel told <http://arstechnica.com/news.ars/post/20070315-your-isp-may-be-selling-your- web-clicks.html> Ars Technica that his company (an internet research firm) licenses click information from ISPs for 'millions of dollars' to figure out how we use the web. From the article: 'He did not give a specific figure about what this broke down to in terms of dollars per ISP user, although someone in the audience estimated that it was in the range of 40 per user per month - this estimate was erroneously attributed to Cancel himself in some reports on the event. Cancel said that this clickstream data is 'much more comprehensive' than data that is normally gleaned through analyzing search queries.'" <http://slashdot.org/login.pl> [+] business <http://slashdot.org/tags/business> , internet <http://slashdot.org/tags/internet> (tagging beta <http://slashdot.org/faq/tags.shtml> )
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