Is Comcast Intercepting Packets?

Posted by timothy on Monday February 11, 2002 @03:45PM from the wherefore-and-through-whom dept.

nihilist_1137 writes: "According this page, comcast is intercepting your packets to gain knowledge of your whereabouts and then reselling it to marketers." According to the linked message, "This allows them to not only log all http requests, but to also log the response. Maybe they want to profile their customer browsing history for subsidiaries or resale to marketers. Maybe they want to do their part in The War on Freedom. Maybe they just want passwords to porn sites. Apparently they aren't using it to maximize bandwidth, because it's not configured to serve cached data."

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It's pretty much a done deal by Anonymous Coward · 2002-02-11 15:56 · Score: 0, Troll

The IPEC investigated this in Canada last month, and has already decided to file suit. This is egregious.
http://http://srd.yahoo.com/business/news/canadian /electronic/technical/francais/firstwatch/2002/jan uary/montreal/privacy/investigation/legal/watch/co mcast.html
This should get resolved pretty quickly in the Candian courts. Some of the prosecutor's points apply to the US as well!