Congress studies how people track your online use

July 9th, 2008 By JOELLE TESSLER , AP Business Writer

(AP) -- Executives from major Internet players - Microsoft Corp., Google Inc. and Facebook Inc. - are due for a grilling about online privacy in a Senate committee Wednesday, but the company likely to get the most scrutiny is a small Silicon Valley startup called NebuAd Inc.

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• gopher65 - Jul 09, 2008
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  Ah. Gator rises from its ashes to plague the world again. Those people are like zombies. Nothing seems to kill their corporations:P, at least not permanently (like the deserve).
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• KB6 - Jul 09, 2008
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  "This is analogous to AT&T listening to your phone calls all day in order to figure out what to sell you in the middle of dinner..."
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  I don't know whether to laugh or cry.
  Little-known story: This pathetic Congress which is supposedly so concerned about our privacy was apparently out to lunch when it came to AT&T's help with the NSA's illegal wiretapping. And now the Congress is going to bail them out:
  
  http://freepress....de/42213
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• jeffsaunders - Jul 09, 2008
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  If AT&T had the technology to listen to all conversations, cheaply enough to make it worth while, and work out peoples shopping habits then they would have done it.
  
  With the internet this is much more feasible and hence being done.
  
  I hope these air-heads decide on an opt-in system instead of opt-out.
  
  I don't even like Google looking at my past searches and deciding what I am really looking for when I search again. My interests are so diverse that I am often looking for something because I haven't seen what I was looking for yet.
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• superhuman - Jul 10, 2008
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  It has to be auto opt out, users don't have time to track all the bloody opt-out dialog boxes buried in the pile of web garbage, we also don't have time to read 100 pages of terms of service garbage every week to find one line which tells us we will be wiretapped.
  
  Automatic opt-in is totally unacceptable!
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