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Comcast To Stop Tracking Users' Web Habits

Posted by Hemos on from the you-don't-mean-my-credit-card-numbers dept.

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

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  1. Lawmaker Questions Comcast's Web Tracking by iiii · · Score: 4, Informative
    This might have something to do with it.

    The Washington Post has this article about how Rep. Ed Markey is looking into Comcast's collection of personal internet usage info. Hey, this guy must read SlashDot!!

    Markey, D-Mass., in a letter to Comcast President Brian Roberts, wrote that he was concerned about "the nature and extent of any transgressions of the law that may have resulted in consumer privacy being compromised."

    Also, Comcast has a new press release in response to the fracas.

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  2. Thanks slashdot by $carab · · Score: 5, Informative

    Big Kudos to the moderator (timothy) who was willing to take a chance on an anonymous bugtraq tip. I just got off the phone with Comcast tech support, and they said, essentially, that if this information had never leaked out, they would still be monitoring my internet usage.

    Just looking at the original article right here, I was very suprised by all the "This is not news posts" that got modded +5.

    Quite simply, this is news, and this is not a simple proxy server either, according to Comcast tech support. Slashdot took a big risk in posting this story, and I think everyone that hollered about the original story being a bust owes a big apology to timothy.

    Anyways,
    It's good Comcast has finally seen the light (or have had it thrust in their faces), but I am still looking for a new ISP. I think this image really explains why:
    Curious jumps everywhere
    High ping times

    I'm afraid Comcast just isn't cutting it any more. Since my area is a Comcast monopoly, I tihnk its time that we pressured our public officials to break up this monopoly.

    As I told the rep: "I hope you realize that if a competitor, ANY competitor, breaks up your cable monopoly here, you will lose all your market share."
    And he said:
    "Yeah, I know"

  3. Re:Anonymizer? by TheAwfulTruth · · Score: 4, Informative

    Unfortunately "anonymizers" aren't too anonymouse these days...

    http://www.wired.com/news/politics/0,1283,50371, 00 .html

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