Aug 19 2008

US – Public Pressure Caused ISP Cable One to End Customer Snooping

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An interesting report reveals that Cable One had been quietly conducting targeted advertising on its customers, but pulled the plug once pressure mounted to end such trials.

It’s been quite a spectacle. ISPs being under fire for privacy related issues with its own customers has frazzled more than a few nerves in the past couple of months. While the case in Germany targeted specific people the cases in Britain, Canada and the US all showed that people were being spied on en-mass for financial gain at the expense of user privacy.

While the cases such as the Canadian CIPPIC one, the infamous British Phorm trials, and even the US Charter case which

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