You think this is unique to Earthlink? Many, many web companies have agreements with firms that gather such information and sell it to companies. Numerous companies such as Engage.com specialize in this sort of "empirical marketing strategy affirmation" (or some similar managerial buzzword).
The bottom line is, as long as the privacy of users is respected, these services are a benefit to Net users, in the same way corporate advertising makes television financially viable.
1. According to an article in the WSJ (it was practically a footnote), Earthlink said "it will work with authorities in criminal investigations, but expressed concern about privacy issues". So they definitely aren't ignoring the issue.
2. Do you think a large corporation such as Earthlink will directly justify their defiance by citing privacy issues? Then they can be assured that their customers will get disruptions when the government feels the need to through its weight around.
And I thought my printer only hummed because it didn't know the words...
Now if only they could synchronize your hard drives to the printer music, so you could get a higher range. Throw in the fans and the modem and you could do a quartet.
Does the U.S. still restrict crypto export? I seem to recll reading that the White House pushed through a regulation to lift most export restrictions (except to the "terrorist nations"). Could someone enlighten me?
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You think this is unique to Earthlink? Many, many web companies have agreements with firms that gather such information and sell it to companies. Numerous companies such as Engage.com specialize in this sort of "empirical marketing strategy affirmation" (or some similar managerial buzzword).
The bottom line is, as long as the privacy of users is respected, these services are a benefit to Net users, in the same way corporate advertising makes television financially viable.
Two things:
1. According to an article in the WSJ (it was practically a footnote), Earthlink said "it will work with authorities in criminal investigations, but expressed concern about privacy issues". So they definitely aren't ignoring the issue.
2. Do you think a large corporation such as Earthlink will directly justify their defiance by citing privacy issues? Then they can be assured that their customers will get disruptions when the government feels the need to through its weight around.
And I thought my printer only hummed because it didn't know the words...
Now if only they could synchronize your hard drives to the printer music, so you could get a higher range. Throw in the fans and the modem and you could do a quartet.
Here is the press release