Text 11742, 65 rader
Skriven 2006-06-23 00:40:38 av Rich Gauszka (1:379/45)
  Kommentar till text 11740 av Dave Ings (1:379/45)
Ärende: Re: AT&T - we own your records sucker!!!
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From: "Rich Gauszka" <gauszka@hotmail.com>

AT&T is partnered with Yahoo so it will track those sites. Now it wishes to
track TV viewing habits for any shows delivered over the phone - something
cable and satellite providers are barred from.

http://www.kristv.com/Global/story.asp?S=5067691&nav=Bsmh

Coe said AT and T won't track Internet use once customers leave the AT and
T-Yahoo sites to, for example, conduct a search on Google.com.

http://www.usatoday.com/money/industries/telecom/2006-06-21-privacy-qanda-usat_
x.htm
Q: Is this disclosure intended to put customers on alert that their records may
not be as private as they think? Could it be interpreted as allowing AT&T, at
its discretion, to disclose such records without subpoenas or warrants?

A: That's exactly it. AT&T is reserving an unqualified right to exploit
personal information any way the company sees fit. The intent is veiled in
euphemisms, but the language means that the company believes it has an
unqualified right to do almost anything with the data.

Q: AT&T's new policy seems to allow the collection of Internet navigation and
video-viewing records. Cable TV providers can't do that without consumers'
consent. This is part of a larger debate over whether Internet protocol video
should be treated like cable. What's your assessment?

A: The U.S. has taken a "sectoral" approach to privacy, meaning that specific
laws regulate certain sectors of the economy. New technologies can upset this
approach. The Cable Act, which was extended to satellite providers two years
ago, is one of the strongest privacy laws in the U.S. It prevents cable
companies from collecting viewing habits and using them for marketing or other
purposes. Now that TV can be delivered over telephone wires, it makes sense to
extend the Cable Act provisions to telephone carriers.



"Dave Ings" <ings@sympatico.ca> wrote in message news:449b6ab6@w3.nls.net...
>I don't get how they are going to do this. This sort of info is usually
>hidden inside an https session that no intermediate service provider can
>see (short of cracking the end to end session).
>
> Me thinks the BW reporter got something mixed up or forgot to add
> something to the effect that this will be done for ATT hosted sites (I
> didn't realize there were any actually).
> --
> Regards,
> Dave Ings,
> Toronto, Canada
>
> "Rich Gauszka" <gauszka@hotmail.com> wrote in message
> news:449b5396@w3.nls.net...
>
>> http://www.businessweek.com/ap/financialnews/D8IDHDT01.htm?sub=apn_tech_down
&chan=tc
>
>> Under the new policy, AT&T will collect customers' user names, passwords,
>> charges, payments and online purchases. It will also track their clicks
>> while on sites that AT&T operates in a partnership with Yahoo Inc.
>>
>
>

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