[NANOG] Charter Communications going to sniff traffic for advertising?

[simon at slimey.org (Simon Lockhart)]

On Wed May 14, 2008 at 04:31:57PM -0400, Jake Matthews wrote:
> Apparently Charter is going to packetsniff its users and use that for 
> commercial purposes.
 
> Anyones thoughts on this?

There's a company called Phorm (www.phorm.com) trying to do this in the UK,
running some trials with some of the large broadband providers.

It hasn't gone down well at all...

	http://www.theregister.co.uk/2008/02/29/phorm_roundup/

Simon
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