Comcast To Stop Tracking Users' Web Habits

jdavidb writes "According to this article, Comcast will no longer keep track of what its users view online." Good.

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Slashdot stories are getting shorter.

[sulli]

Good.

kick ass

[no reason to be here]

now i don't have to worry about them sending my room mate (whose name is on the account) spam based on my surfing habits.

Big Brother's Rationalization

[Halloween Jack]

The 1984 law does allow cable operators to collect private information if it can show it needs the information to operate its service.

Comcast Executive Vice President Dave Watson said Tuesday that the company was recording no more information about its customers than is common in the industry and no more than needed to optimize its network.

"How else are we going to keep our customers if we don't have blackmail material?"

Use babelfish...

[ajuda]

What the story said:
Comcast said in a statement that it will stop storing the information "in order to completely reassure our customers that the privacy of their information is secure."

After using the MBA -> English translator on Babelfish, we get:
Oh shoot, you cought us, so we will pretend we care about you. HAHA, we will just find another way to treat y'all like cattle. BTW: Please don't sue me.

Re:yeah, right

[jc42]

AOL spokesman Nicholas Graham said, "We do not track the personal Web activity of our members for privacy reasons."

Obviously, this was taken out of context. Mr. Graham then went on to mutter to himself, "We do it for business reasons, not privacy reasons."