IP: Comcast Tracks Users' Web Browsing

[David Farber <dave () farber net>]

> From: Steve Bellovin <smb () research att com>
> To: dave () farber net
>
>
> http://www.nytimes.com/aponline/technology/AP-Internet-Privacy.html
>
> WASHINGTON (AP) -- Comcast Corp.  (news/quote), the nation's
> third-largest cable company, has begun tracking the Web browsing
> activities of its 1 million high-speed Internet subscribers without
> notifying them.
>
> Comcast said Tuesday the tracking of each Web page a subscriber
> visits was part of a technology overhaul designed to save money
> and improve the speed of cable Internet service to its customers
> and was not intended infringe on privacy.

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