Mr Matt
join:2008-01-29
Eustis, FL
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| Big Brother ISP is watching. No one seems to get it. Deleting your cookies does not help protect you from having your ISP or a third party, with the cooperation of your ISP, observe your surfing habits. Your ISP will keep a record of the IP Address you are assigned and when. If your IP address changes your ISP will keep a record your new IP address. That information combined with the URLs you select can be collected by a monitoring and recording system. The ISP knows who you are from your IP address and your surfing habits from feedback from their DNS Server. They now have a record of who you are and which websites that you have browsed. By-by privacy. By the way if you have Digital Cable and/or use a Cable Card your viewing habits can be tracked, down to what channel you view and when. |
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| said by Mr Matt: The ISP knows who you are from your IP address and your surfing habits from feedback from their DNS Server. They now have a record of who you are and which websites that you have browsed. By-by privacy. By the way if you have Digital Cable and/or use a Cable Card your viewing habits can be tracked, down to what channel you view and when. If you surf with Tor, methinks thou has no worries? |
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But just think how grand life will be when they call us to tell us it's time to watch our favorite TV show, with our own targeted commercials: "Mr. Matt, the GPS on your cell phone informed us that you are not now in front of your television. Please report to your living room, immediately, or we will be forced to add a non-viewer's fee to your next bill." |
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said by SilverSurfer1:said by Mr Matt: The ISP knows who you are from your IP address and your surfing habits from feedback from their DNS Server. They now have a record of who you are and which websites that you have browsed. By-by privacy. By the way if you have Digital Cable and/or use a Cable Card your viewing habits can be tracked, down to what channel you view and when. If you surf with Tor, methinks thou has no worries? Except running slow as molasses.
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That's "Bye Bye", Privacy. |
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patcat88
join:2002-04-05
Jamaica, NY
kudos:1 | reply to Mr Matt
said by Mr Matt:By the way if you have Digital Cable and/or use a Cable Card your viewing habits can be tracked, down to what channel you view and when. They already do. Read privacy policies. It only covers personally identifiable information. If they make you only a number, they can do whatever they want with your information.
Also I have a feeling this system may start to change/insert new ads, Gator style. Except now pages will have floaters. Also NebuAd can partner with existing advertising networks, so that there is no "you replaced my ad and cost me the revenue from that ad" lawsuits. |
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patcat88
join:2002-04-05
Jamaica, NY
kudos:1 | reply to fAcEtIOUs
What if the exit points of TOR are on ISP's that collect clickstream data? Although that info wouldn't be of much use, since it represents 100s/1000s of people that you can't do any statistical modeling on, since it looks like 1 person. |
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patcat88
join:2002-04-05
Jamaica, NY
kudos:1 | reply to mikenolan7
Not far, not far. I expect one day soon to see a fee for not watching the TV, to offset the loss of impressions for locally inserted ads. |
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To carry this one step further, when you comply with the summons to watch your favorite show, the servers in the background have *already* determined which ads you'll be forced to view and when. Each viewer will get his own unique selection of ads to watch. If you step away from the TV, your GPS fone will skip the reminder to go back to the TV, but rather play the ads on its own beautiful LCD screen. Now *THAT'S* entertainment!  |
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Damn you are sooo right about that Mike.The scariest thing is that there will still be a significant portion of the population that won't have a problem with that. |
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