https://www.bitsbook.com/2008/08/opting-in-to-being-tracked/ Your Life, Liberty and Happiness After the Digital Explosion Mon, 21 Dec 2009 03:26:33 +0000 hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=5.8.13 https://www.bitsbook.com/2008/08/opting-in-to-being-tracked/comment-page-1/#comment-2333 Mon, 21 Dec 2009 03:02:54 +0000 http://www.bitsbook.com/?p=163#comment-2333 […] We’ve blogged before about the advantages to advertisers to know your search habits, and more generally, what sort of thing interests you, as those preferences are revealed by your Internet usage. NebuAd is a pioneer in “deep packet inspection,” opening the “envelopes” of data being sent to you to report back to the ISP what’s in them. The privacy issues surrounding this practice have come up for congressional scrutiny; see previous blog posts here and here. […]

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