RE: Who else is Omniture doing snooping for?

["Brent Colflesh" <Brent.Colflesh () ulticom com>]

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Subject: Re: [Full-disclosure] Who else is Omniture doing snooping for?


> Here's how the Omniture describes themselves:
>
>    http://www.omniture.com/company.html
>  
>    "Imagine a device that could be placed by the front 
>    door of a department store to tell the store manager 
>    all kinds of detailed information about customers - 
>    what store they came from, who they were referred by, 
>    if they have been to the store previously, what 
>    advertisement they were responding to and much more," 
>    says CEO Josh James. "Imagine how useful this kind of 
>    information is to a store manager or marketing agent. 
>    That is the kind of information SiteCatalyst can provide, 
>    instantaneously, in real-time."



This is hardly new - almost every popular third-party site stat
company does this - not downloading third-party images and disabling
Javascript (as mentioned before) will take care of it if you are
really concerned.

Regards,
Brent

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