Re: UK ISPs to Spy on Google Users (and Others)

[David Farber <dave () farber net>]

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From: Ed Gerck [egerck () nma com]
Sent: Thursday, March 06, 2008 4:03 PM
To: David Farber
Cc: ip
Subject: Re: [IP] UK ISPs to Spy on Google Users (and Others)

[Dave: for IP if you wish]

What's the surprise here? ISP have been doing this for more than 10
years. In fact, ISPs can do more. ISPs can measure interaction
parameters, such as time between queries, and the cross-queries, to
model the person at the keyboard, thus establishing different user
profiles for each account, and then use these profiles to match the user
at the keyboard within a class of customers (child, teen, health care
professional., etc.).

And even if your ISP doesn't do this, another one in the food chain can
do, and they all can do it too.

The Internet does not have "space" to separate users, as would think of
a cyberspace. The Internet is a point. We are all at the same point.
There are no dividers. With faster and faster connections, the point
metaphor is stronger -- there is not even much delay in changing routes.

Cheers,
Ed Gerck

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