| reply to jaminus
Re: Aren't these systems opt-in already? Aggregate anonymized data is fine. There is nothing wrong with giving this data to a third party.
But I think they want to go much further than just aggregate data. They want individual browsing habits in REAL TIME with the ability to connect to the user for advertising purposes. Such as monitoring which IP you have and always linking your past and current browsing records to your current ip. So webpages running ads for them can relay the ip and receive a targeted ad to display. That is a very scary thing. It also means the ad agency has everything on file they need to identify you and most likely wouldn't give two shits about giving this information up to someone like the RIAA.
Like say an anonymous web comment makes the news for being offensive and the idiot offended is subpoenaing the web page for the IP address and time associated with the comment. The web page could have a privacy policy where they do not store identifying information. But if some third party company data mines everything you do online, all the offended person has to do is go to the ad company and have them run a query for the text and find the source IP and time of the posting that way. There is no chance a third party company is going to fight such a request or even care if the original web page involved had a privacy policy claiming IPs would not be logged. |
