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| Phormic Acid |
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 Registered Member #22 Joined: Mon Feb 25 2008, 11:11PMPosts: 239 | The BBC have an interesting article that summarises the results of a survey conducted by a company called StrongMail. [ image disabled ]Firms ‘give out’ customer details I don’t know how much weight should be attached to the exact figures given, but it nicely illustrates something I’ve mentioned before: motivation. An employee in charge of running a network or server knows that, if they start looking through all the data of their employer’s customers, they’re being a nosy parker. It’s not needed to get the job done. Employees involved with ISP behavioural targeting will have different motivations. Their jobs are to extract as much information about customers as possible and use it for profit. They are much more likely to have attitudes like those people surveyed by StrongMail. If you can read all my HTTP traffic, you’re standing too close. | ||
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| warescouse |
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 Registered Member #452 Joined: Sat Jun 21 2008, 02:16PMPosts: 4 | Only came across this tonight. Seems like many companies will go that extra mile for a fast buck. http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/europe/7572774.stm | ||
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