Comments on: Privacy Wins Some, Loses Some http://gigaom.com/2008/04/14/privacy-wins-some-loses-some/ Sat, 11 Feb 2012 12:44:45 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.com/ By: I Always Feel Like My ISP’s Watching Me - GigaOM http://gigaom.com/2008/04/14/privacy-wins-some-loses-some/#comment-198994 Sat, 02 Aug 2008 05:11:12 +0000 http://gigaom.com/?p=12142#comment-198994 [...] packet inspection for advertising: Charter Communications, Embarq and others had signed up with a startup called NebuAd that inserted [...]

]]> By: Oar Wellin http://gigaom.com/2008/04/14/privacy-wins-some-loses-some/#comment-198993 Tue, 15 Apr 2008 23:47:09 +0000 http://gigaom.com/?p=12142#comment-198993 ‘While the system doesn’t seem terribly insidious’

choke

Being wire tapped at your ISP not insidious?

Your whole click stream ripped off and sold?

What does it take to make you use the word ‘insidious’ about the web Stacey?

]]> By: Kevin Horne http://gigaom.com/2008/04/14/privacy-wins-some-loses-some/#comment-198992 Tue, 15 Apr 2008 14:51:41 +0000 http://gigaom.com/?p=12142#comment-198992 The consumer doesn’t get “short shrift.” The Internet is a commercial venture. You pay to get access, and you pay for the content or support it by consuming advertisements.

Every night thousands of workers carry laptops into the streets bearing consumers’ social security numbers, etc. Yet people want the government to block ISPs et al. from tracking nonidentifying information.

The paranoia boggles the mind.

]]> By: Kevin Horne http://gigaom.com/2008/04/14/privacy-wins-some-loses-some/#comment-198991 Tue, 15 Apr 2008 14:48:11 +0000 http://gigaom.com/?p=12142#comment-198991 The consumer doesn’t get “short shrift.” The Internet is a commercial venture. You pay to get on, and you either pay for content or support it via advertising.

And every night, thousands of people take their laptops out onto the street containing consumers’ social security numbers, etc. And no one blinks.

The paranoia surrounding this issue boggles the mind.

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