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Elbonia | reply to exocet_cm
Re: Geeze The ad industry is going to try to obscure this, but in fact the ISP spying on your traffic is very different from the websites trying to track you across the web. The difference is that you can opt out of the web tracking with adjustments to your software, but there is no escaping from wiretapping by the ISP.
It's true that the tricks to avoid being tracked require enough knowledge that they are practically unavilable to technically naive users. This can be addressed with education and opt-in/opt-out laws. (I won't see the ad campaign because obnoxious ads and offensive tracking efforts have forced me to filter out a lot of the ad servers.)
The schemes where the ISPs intercept your traffic are really evil and have to be outlawed. The politicians need to understand how this is different. Claims of not using "personally identifiable" information are not sufficient. Even being allowed to opt out of advertising based on the wiretapping is not sufficient - people must have the option of not being spied on by their ISPs (unless with a court order to investigate crime). |
