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From: David Farber <dave () farber net>
Date: Wed, 13 Feb 2002 04:30:11 -0500
From: Steve Bellovin <smb () research att com> To: dave () farber net http://www.nytimes.com/aponline/technology/AP-Internet-Privacy.html WASHINGTON (AP) -- Comcast Corp. (news/quote), the nation's third-largest cable company, has begun tracking the Web browsing activities of its 1 million high-speed Internet subscribers without notifying them. Comcast said Tuesday the tracking of each Web page a subscriber visits was part of a technology overhaul designed to save money and improve the speed of cable Internet service to its customers and was not intended infringe on privacy.
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