ISPs Selling Your Information Again
from the it's-just-your-privacy-don't-you-want-to-buy-some-stuff dept
In the past, when ISPs have attempted to make money off their users' clickstream data, they have met with fierce objections. Now, a new company, NebuAd is asking ISPs to provide not only clickstream data, but also your personal information such as physical location -- and they then want to use this data to target ads to you. But not to worry, your embarrassing halitosis problem won't outed by a traveling salesman selling mouthwash, since according to the company's CEO, "We only look at consumer sites - not ones that are sensitive. So if you go to a sex site, we don't track that. If you look up something for HIV positive, we don't look at that. But if you are planning travel to the South of France or are researching a Lexus SUV, we do track that." Uh yah, right. Ad companies always have the users' best interests in mind, don't they?Thank you for reading this Techdirt post. With so many things competing for everyone’s attention these days, we really appreciate you giving us your time. We work hard every day to put quality content out there for our community.
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Where's my cut?
The customer should also be entitled to a large discount on their service and the choice to 'opt-out' easily.
Personally, I'd be willing to let them have my clickstream data - for $50/month.
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Well... If they do that...
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Just use an encrypted connection
one P2P network that is not designed for file sharing, but to support free speech, is Freenet. it's encrypted and no file is stored in one location, but rather spread out. that way, nothing can be "removed" from the network, but can die over time from lack of use. additionally, the have message-boards through Frost, and even provide tools for uploading your own Freesite (jSite). Its not perfect yet, but the idea and determination is definantly there.
www.freenetproject.org/
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Re: Just use an encrypted connection
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There are solutions...
Relakks, https://www.relakks.com/
Anonymizer, http://www.anonymizer.com/
Xerobank, http://xerobank.com
IronKey, http://ironkey.com
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Targeted ads
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Huh?
And despite all this high speed internet are still so blasted high. Like comment #2 said there should be an opt-out option and a discount for those that go along with it.
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Actually...
Call up your phone company and ask them to not allow any distribution of your CPNI
Defenders of this will claim they can only sell/trade to "Affiliates"
Well who the frig are they? Affiliates could be anyone.
Anyway, there's more info here:
http://www.epic.org/privacy/cpni/
If you google CPNI you can find other info.
If you ask me, this is a much more serious issue, but no one seems to care.
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Re: Actually...
I'm not selling affiliates, but I'll sell friendship. Who wants to be my friend? All you have to do is make three for your friends be my friend and you can be my friend for free!
Friendship not guaranteed.
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Bitch
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My country tis of theee.. WTF??
Good luck. Back in the 1990's, the Supreme Court ruled that we are NOT entitled to keep our private data private, that companies can use and abuse it for profit, but nothing to the ones being used for profit.
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Spam them.
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