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Charter: Selling Browsing Data Is Like Offering Faster Speeds - Does insulting customer intelligence cost extra?
Earlier this week I noted that Charter has started selling user browsing activity to NebuAD, a behavioral advertising firm I profiled in February. NebuAD takes that data and delivers (through traditional ad networks) ads tailored to your browsing habits. While the opt-out system still has major...
DSLreports - front page | more posts | 53 days | Fri., May 16, '08
Congressmen Not Happy About Charter's Plan To Sell Out Users To Advertisers
While Charter Communications is out defending its efforts to inject ads into your surfing activities by collecting data on where you surf, it appears that some powerful Congressional Representatives are suggesting that Charter might want to think twice about implementing this. Reps. Ed Markey and...
Techdirt | more posts | 53 days | Fri., May 16, '08
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