Another ISP Snoop Bites the Dust


	Another ISP Snoop Bites the Dust

Andy Greenberg

10-10-2008 10:41 AM

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isp, advertising, adzilla, nebuad, google, privacy

Andy Greenberg says:

Sorry, American ISPs. The possibilities of selling your heaps of lucrative data have now officially dried up.

Overseas ISPs, however, (even British ones) seem likely to get away with this.

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