Stalker marketing

Leaked Report: ISP Secretly Added Spy Code To Web Sessions, Crashing Browsers

An internal British Telecom report on a secret trial of an ISP eavesdropping and advertising technology found that the system crashed some unsuspecting users' browsers, and a small percentage of the 18,000 broadband customers under surveillance believed they'd been infected with adware.

Few people detected Phorm in BT's secret trials

Congress urged to investigate ISPs over user tracking

Clearly Internet service providers are going to learn the hard way that their customers are not chattel and may not be treated as such.

Privacy protection is going to be the next killer ap. Your more clueful venture capitalist is already looking around for entrepreneurs with solutions to this problem.

Spyware versus myware

Don’t Let Self-Improvement Tools Be Used Against You

The State of Search Engine Safety

Study: Music, Tech Search Terms Riskiest

NEW YORK -- Search terms related to music and technology are most likely to return sites with spyware and other malicious code, a new study finds.

This is very clever of McAfee, to put out a study of search engines and spyware. It is a clever way to build their brand.

Stopping Spyware at the Source

Cindy Skrzycki, The Washington Post

During the past few months, the Federal Trade Commission has filed deceptive- advertising cases against two distributors of what is called adware or spyware. The insidious form of software subjects consumers and their computers to unwanted advertising and surveillance.

The five-member commission plans to escalate its attack by going after some of the big-name Internet advertisers that hire the online distributors.

"We need to stop the demand side of spyware," said Jon Leibowitz, one of the five commission members and a Democrat. "We will send letters to major corporations and entities that place the majority of these ads. This is a wake-up call to put them on notice.

That should wake them up.

Seriously, if your business model threatens everyone else's security it needs to be changed.