How David Coursey Got Slimed By A Big Corporation
from the nice-try dept
David Coursey has an article defending Comcast's actions where they were secretly spying on users. He makes a few mistakes, though. He says the "spying" was really caching, which Comcast clearly said it wasn't. Second, he says that no one cares about what sites you look at and we give away more private info using things like supermarket cards anyway. Sure, but that's by choice. What Comcast did here, was start recording a lot of information from their consumers without giving them any indication that their monitoring system had changed. In fact, it sounds as though, they forced users to install special software by misleading them about the purpose of the software.
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Coursey Seeking Controversy?
Unless he's fallen on his head, I don't think he's that goofy - so I'm figuring he's trying to attract readers who will post and flame him (driving up the exposures, making advertising more expensive). That, or there's something in the water. The last guy who had the job started making really ridiculous statements as well.
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Re: Coursey Seeking Controversy?
I won't go into why I got all riled for fear of taking this too far off topic, but one has to wonder if Salon's recent, um, decision to allow that glowing piece of rubbish about .NET to fly had something to do with attracting noise.
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