Privacy Alert: ISPs Putting Ad Service Boxes in the Clickstream is Bad
TAKEAWAY: A disturbing new trend in ISP privacy violations has the alarms ringing in Scott Wright's head. Apparently, a number of companies are offering to put equipment in ISP facilities -- for free -- to profile "all unencrypted content" so that they can "better target ads in their network" and share
the profits with the ISPs. Wright thinks this could be just the tip of the iceberg, if you think of all the kinds of
things ISPs could start doing.
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