Congress studies how people track your online use
July 9, 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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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
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.
Automatic opt-in is totally unacceptable!