Comments on: Privacy Wins Some, Loses Some http://gigaom.com/2008/04/14/privacy-wins-some-loses-some/ Tracking the Internet Evolution Sun, 12 Oct 2008 07:54:46 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=MU hourly 1 By: I Always Feel Like My ISP’s Watching Me - GigaOM http://gigaom.com/2008/04/14/privacy-wins-some-loses-some/#comment-891714 I Always Feel Like My ISP’s Watching Me - GigaOM Sat, 02 Aug 2008 05:11:12 +0000 http://gigaom.com/?p=12142#comment-891714 [...] packet inspection for advertising: Charter Communications, Embarq and others had signed up with a startup called NebuAd that inserted [...] [...] 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-871331 Oar Wellin Tue, 15 Apr 2008 23:47:09 +0000 http://gigaom.com/?p=12142#comment-871331 <p>'While the system doesn’t seem terribly insidious'</p> <p><em>choke</em></p> <p>Being wire tapped at your ISP not insidious?</p> <p>Your whole click stream ripped off and sold?</p> <p>What does it take to make you use the word 'insidious' about the web Stacey?</p> ‘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-871284 Kevin Horne Tue, 15 Apr 2008 14:51:41 +0000 http://gigaom.com/?p=12142#comment-871284 <p>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.</p> <p>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.</p> <p>The paranoia boggles the mind.</p> 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-871283 Kevin Horne Tue, 15 Apr 2008 14:48:11 +0000 http://gigaom.com/?p=12142#comment-871283 <p>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.</p> <p>And every night, thousands of people take their laptops out onto the street containing consumers' social security numbers, etc. And no one blinks.</p> <p>The paranoia surrounding this issue boggles the mind.</p> 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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