ISP Spies

From Wired EpiCenter:  Another ISP is sued for “spying” on consumers in order to collect information for targeted advertising.    Using deep packet inspection, they were watching everything coming down the pipe from the home to the Internet Cloud.

Another ISP Ad Snooper Hit With Lawsuit

By Ryan Singel March 03, 2009 | 1:23:52 PM

In early June of 2007, Susan Simon noticed odd things happening to her internet connection and traced the troubles to an outfit called Adzilla that turned out to be spying on everything she did online.

Now she’s the lead plaintiff in lawsuit filed Friday in Northern California federal court seeking all the money the now-defunct Adzilla and its partner ISPs made by secretly monitoring Americans’ internet browsing.

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ISP Privacy Policies?

From Techdirt’s Mike Masnick:

Most People Don’t Realize Their ISPs Are Already Spying On Them

“We recently wrote about how you should probably be more nervous about the data your ISP is collecting rather than what Google is collecting, because your ISP has access to a lot more data, and the data it has isn’t data that you chose to give, as in the case of Google. Plus, ISPs have a long history of selling that data. Now, a new study is showing that most people have no idea that their ISPs track and sell their data…”

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Time to check your privacy terms?