UK ISPs To Start Tracking Your Surfing To Serve You Ads
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| While Phorm claims that it keeps your data private "by tracking individual
| users with an assigned number only," that's hardly assuring. After all,
| remember that both AOL and Netflix have released similar anonymized data
| where identifying info was replaced with an assigned number... and it didn't
| take long for both sets of data to be de-anonymized. While it's no surprise
| that ISPs would want to get into the advertising business, and to think that
| they could better target ads thanks to their knowledge of your entire surfing
| history, it's going to freak some people out (and potentially cause some
| serious privacy problems). All the more reason to figure out how encrypt your
| traffic and hide your activities from your ISP.
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http://techdirt.com/articles/20080218/024203278.shtml
Google absolved of 'crimes against humanity'
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| Alas, the War on Terror waits for no man. No time to lose, he rushed down to
| the courthouse on September 18th, 2007 to file a claim under 42 U.S.C.
| section 1983 (which allows for lawsuits based on government civil rights
| violations) seeking redress to the tune of $5bn. The case was summarily
| dismissed. And then Jayne appealed.
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http://www.theregister.co.uk/2008/02/19/dylan_stephen_jayne_lawsuit_axed/
Related:
What does the Microsoft "partnership" with Facebook mean for users?
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| First, Microsoft had a very instructive failure with Passport, and
| the "Hailstorm" effort of which it was a part.
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http://www.linuxjournal.com/node/1002828
Back doors in Windows XP...
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KGlNTEQ0RzM
Mother of all spyware...
http://news.softpedia.com/news/Forget-about-the-WGA-20-Windows-Vista-Features-and-Services-Harvest-User-Data-for-Microsoft-58752.shtml
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| Vista—Microsoft’s latest operating system—may prove to be most
| appropriately named, especially for those seeking evidence of how a
| computer was used.
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http://www.abanet.org/journal/ereport/jy13tkjasn.html
Will Microsoft Put The Colonel in the Kernel?
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| "The kernel meets The Colonel in a just-published Microsoft patent
| application for an Advertising Services Architecture, which delivers targeted
| advertising as 'part of the OS.'
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http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=07/07/14/043200
Microsoft patents the mother of all adware systems
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| The adware framework would leave almost no data untouched in its quest to
| sell you stuff. It would inspect "user document files, user e-mail files,
| user music files, downloaded podcasts, computer settings, computer status
| messages (e.g., a low memory status or low printer ink)," and more. How could
| we have been so blind as to not see the marketing value in computer status
| messages?
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http://arstechnica.com/news.ars/post/20070717-microsoft-patents-the-mother-of-all-adware-systems.html
German government admits it is already conducting online searches
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| Piltz called on the German government to block funding for the
| programming of software used in online searches; she also said it
| was urgent that the government "discontinue these searches until
| the German Supreme Court has reached a ruling on the matter."
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http://www.heise.de/english/newsticker/news/88895/from/rss09
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