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Do you slow down when you see a crash on the Superinformation Highway?
Internet advert outfit grilled over privacy
BIGWIGS FROM NEBUAD are to be grilled by a US Senate committee over their handling of customer data.
NebuAd works with ISPs to track the online behaviour of their customers and then serve up targeted banner ads.
Already the outfit has been labeled by the Centre for Democracy and Technology, a civil liberties group, as similar to an early generation "adware" company. It is no surprise that several of its executives were once employed by Gator. The only difference with NebuAd is that it works with the ISPs instead of the users.
Robert Topolski, a technology consultant to Public Knowledge and Free Press, said that it was the same as AT&T listening to your phone calls all day in order to figure out what to sell you in the middle of dinner.
Although no major internet service providers are known to have partnered with NebuAd so far, a number of smaller ones have worked with the company. ยต
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yippeeeeeeeeee bout time too, targeted advertising my assssssss ?? its spyware, gator, zilla etc are the scurges of the net, peeps got wise to gator et-al, so now theyre trying a stealth backdoor approach, back orifice anyone ?? FFS these barstewards are nothing but leaches on society, grrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrr !!

the senate committee should send these net terrorists to Guantanamo Bay for a few months, waterboard um, so the committee can *cough target/taylor the appropriate questions for these creeps. :O)
This sounds remarkably similar to a system that UK ISPs want to bring in.

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They need to know how they can use NebuAd's technology to implement another layer of Surveillance & Propaganda^h^h^h^h^h^h^h^h^h^h Informational Massaging For Conformal Security's Sake, aren't you intelligent enough to understand that?