Smaller service providers might and main selling user data

In response to growing concern over the fact that the company Phorm and NebuAd enable service providers to sell encrypted user data to improve targeting of advertising, the researchers decided to find out how widespread such co-operation at the moment, and were surprised by the result, writes TechDirt.

Preliminary results suggest that this practice is more widespread than, with the greatest initiative in trade logs of surfing and search queries exhibit small ISP. Experts also point out that the legality of such actions will be reviewed in case of contact databases into the wrong hands, because the story with details of private data during the experiment AOL advertising is still concerned about the public.

The first rumors of provider fraud emerged during the conference Open Data, 2007, when the CTO of Compete Incorporated David Kensel said the ISP has already received about 40 cents per month for one client history log. Currently, with harsh criticism in relation to Phorm advocates ' Father of the Internet ...