[Chapter-delegates] News from the privacy front: Charter Communications to sniff traffic for advertising?

[Marcin Cieslak]

 From dslreports.com:

"I just received a letter from Charter informing me of an "enhancement" 
  that I find very disturbing. They are going to monitor the websites I 
visit and the searches I perform, and substitute their own ads for the 
ones that would otherwise be displayed on the page. The privacy 
implications of this are obvious.

http://www.dslreports.com/forum/r20461817-HSI-Charter-to-monitor-surfing-insert-its-own-targeted-ads

If you try to "opt out"

http://connect.charter.com/cas/portal/settings/privacyoptout.aspx

it's quite likely you will get:

"Charter Communications is not providing enhanced online advertising 
services in your area at this time. Should Charter launch such a program 
in your area, you will be notified in advance. At that time you will 
need to revisit this page and opt-out of the program."

By courtesy of NANOG:

http://thread.gmane.org/gmane.org.operators.nanog/55571

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               << Marcin Cieslak // saper at saper.info >>

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