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charter is recording every website you go to - beerman - 05-14-2008
http://www.alleyinsider.com/2008/5/charter_chtr_to_customers_we_re_watching_you_and_cashing_in
Unbelievable to me that they can get away with this. Unfortunately the opt-out process simply places a cookie on your computer so if you ever do something to remove the cookie you are back to being recorded.
Re: charter is recording every website you go to - Black Landlord - 05-14-2008
I think it's niaive at this point to assume your wherabouts on the web are not being tracked.
Re: charter is recording every website you go to - BigGuynRusty - 05-14-2008
As was mentioned here for weeks, Comcast, and Time Warner Cable have been doing this for months.
BGnR
Re: charter is recording every website you go to - beerman - 05-14-2008
I think it is terrible that we have to put up with this. Would we allow companies to tag us, like animals, and track where we go during the day for similar reasons? No way!
Re: charter is recording every website you go to - Harbourmaster - 05-14-2008
[quote beerman]I think it is terrible that we have to put up with this. Would we allow companies to tag us, like animals, and track where we go during the day for similar reasons? No way!
If you only knew...
Re: charter is recording every website you go to - Black Landlord - 05-14-2008
[quote beerman]I think it is terrible that we have to put up with this. Would we allow companies to tag us, like animals, and track where we go during the day for similar reasons? No way!
Unless you belong to a religious "cult"-- than everyone thinks it's OK to tag your ear and put you in a pen.
Re: charter is recording every website you go to - rz - 05-14-2008
[quote Black Landlord]I think it's niaive at this point to assume your wherabouts on the web are not being tracked.
ditto that.
Re: charter is recording every website you go to - simonm - 05-14-2008
alsolutely every move you make on the internet or with a cell phone is tracked and recorded. If companies can't come up with a plausible reason why they are doing this (to make money by selling your private info is the main reason) then they can always hide behind the homeland security legislation.
Once the info is transmitted, even with the best will in the world (and who believes in that) it is now next to impossible to deliberately delete it. This message as I send it and as you read it goes through so many servers all of which are being backup and through so many routers all of which have log files which are also being backed up, that nobody really could track down every reference and be sure of having deleted everything - how can you delete off of back-up tapes? Obviously it is expensive to spend time looking for the traces after something has been "deleted" - but almost certainly the info is still out there...
Re: charter is recording every website you go to - macnut - 05-14-2008
Do a search on "total information awareness." Welcome to the post-9/11 world.
Re: charter is recording every website you go to - Jimmypoo - 05-15-2008
This is why being declared insane is a good counterweight, depending on where you surf.