Sun Article

[Bella6969]

I read an article in the sun the other day about Internet providers watching activity ,, i wish i could find the article on line
its pretty interesting the article was on
Aug 10th Big Brother Fears over Web privacy
can anyone help me find it ?

I'm sure some here will find it a good read
Thanks Bella*

 

[Morgan Ellis]

That was the NY Times article about AOL and other major search engines tracking search data.

Writers at the Times used the publically available data to identify and contact an AOL member, simply based on her search patterns.

You might need to sign up for a free NY Times membership to read this:

http://www.nytimes.com/2006/08/09/technology/09aol.html

Morgan

 

[Svend]

http://torontosun.com/News/Canada/2006/08/10/1731737-sun.html

I just googled "Big Brother Fears over Web privacy" from your description.

 

[nominis]

Sometime in July Bell/Sympatico changed the web address for their newsgroups and I believe they mentioned that they would be co-operating with law-enforcement over the monitoring of internet usage.

 

[goodtime]

Goggle & Yahoo already gather info on what we search & resell to Marketing firm, without our personal info. They also customize their local webpage to what we search.

U.S. privacy watchdog was uproared when 3 Internet ISPs pressured to gave customer into to U.S. gov.

 

[RogerRabbit]

http://www.theglobeandmail.com/servlet/story/RTGAM.20060627.gtsecurity0627/BNStory/Technology/home

 

[goalie000]

I read that about Sympatico, monitoring activity. They then would pass info to Authorities if deemed necessary.

 

[nautilus]

Hopefully they are more interested in terrorists and kiddie porn than hobbiests. Not that I fit into any of those categories............