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Comcast To Stop Tracking Users' Web Habits 181

Posted by Hemos from the you-don't-mean-my-credit-card-numbers dept.
jdavidb writes "According to this article, Comcast will no longer keep track of what its users view online." Good.
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Comcast To Stop Tracking Users' Web Habits

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  • Slashdot stories are getting shorter. (Score:4, Funny)

    by sulli ( 195030 ) on Wednesday February 13, 2002 @04:19PM (#3002380) Journal
    Good.

  • kick ass (Score:2, Funny)

    by no reason to be here ( 218628 ) on Wednesday February 13, 2002 @04:20PM (#3002401) Homepage
    now i don't have to worry about them sending my room mate (whose name is on the account) spam based on my surfing habits.

  • Big Brother's Rationalization (Score:4, Funny)

    by Halloween Jack ( 182035 ) on Wednesday February 13, 2002 @04:22PM (#3002418) Homepage
    The 1984 law does allow cable operators to collect private information if it can show it needs the information to operate its service.



    Comcast Executive Vice President Dave Watson said Tuesday that the company was recording no more information about its customers than is common in the industry and no more than needed to optimize its network.


    "How else are we going to keep our customers if we don't have blackmail material?"

  • Use babelfish... (Score:5, Funny)

    by ajuda ( 124386 ) on Wednesday February 13, 2002 @04:24PM (#3002439)
    What the story said:
    Comcast said in a statement that it will stop storing the information "in order to completely reassure our customers that the privacy of their information is secure."

    After using the MBA -> English translator on Babelfish, we get:
    Oh shoot, you cought us, so we will pretend we care about you. HAHA, we will just find another way to treat y'all like cattle. BTW: Please don't sue me.

  • Re:Slashdot stories are getting shorter. (Score:0, Funny)

    by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday February 13, 2002 @04:31PM (#3002509)
    [angry comcast manager] By turning the switch on and off, you told we that we would get two long slashdot stories, how come the second one is short?
    [publicity chief] I'm not sure what went wrong. We'll find something else.

  • Re:yeah, right (Score:2, Funny)

    by jc42 ( 318812 ) on Wednesday February 13, 2002 @04:56PM (#3002705) Homepage Journal
    AOL spokesman Nicholas Graham said, "We do not track the personal Web activity of our members for privacy reasons."

    Obviously, this was taken out of context. Mr. Graham then went on to mutter to himself, "We do it for business reasons, not privacy reasons."

  • Re:kick ass (Score:1, Funny)

    by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday February 13, 2002 @05:49PM (#3003136)
    He may see that you went to crazynakedcollegesluts.com one night and have you burned at the stake the next day.

    Why would the US Attorney General care if you went to crazynakedcollegesluts.com? Porn isn't illegal. Now, if you went to some Iraqi site you may be in big trouble.. but then, you're a terrorist if you're looking for information about Iraq!

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