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0	Open data is the future of web discovery Twitter cofounders have talked about the importance of discovery in interviews and at conferences over the last several months. This week a new design... Source: venturebeat.com Date: Jul 31, 2009 Submitted by: VentureBeat Profiles Comments: 0
0	Turning Your Browser into Mr. Hooper Imagine a random web. Your favorite current affairs news blog, which couldn't survive on Viagra ads, is now charging subscriptions. Your e-tail site... Source: readwriteweb.com Date: Aug 21, 2009 Submitted by: VentureBeat Profiles Comments: 0
0	On Second Thought... NebuAd Not Really Dead... Re-Emerges In The UK Under An Assumed Name After writing about how NebuAd had shut down, a commenter pointed out this wasn't quite true. Instead, it appears the company has just re-appeared... Source: techdirt.com Date: May 20, 2009 Submitted by: VentureBeat Profiles Comments: 0
0	Ding Dong, NebuAd Is Dead While it took many months since Congress made it clear that NebuAd's somewhat sneaky clickstream tracking/behavioral advertising plans were almost... Source: techdirt.com Date: May 19, 2009 Submitted by: VentureBeat Profiles Comments: 0
0	NebuAd Nearly Shut Down, Court Papers Say NebuAd wanted to make money by spying on ISPs customers, but it's going out of business, its lawyers tell a federal court. The death of NebuAd means... Source: wired.com Date: May 19, 2009 Submitted by: VentureBeat Profiles Comments: 0
0	Did AT&T Lie To Congress About Using Behavioral Advertising? Congress is apparently holding hearings this week about behavioral advertising -- the controversial online practice of targeting ads to people based... Source: techdirt.com Date: Apr 24, 2009 Submitted by: VentureBeat Profiles Comments: 0
0	Ad-Targeting Companies and Critics Prepare for Senate Scrutiny As Reported In The New York Times The Senate Commerce Committee will hold a hearing Wednesday to look at the policy issues raised by advertising that... Source: sharkstrike.com (Company Blog) Date: Feb 16, 2009 Submitted by: VentureBeat Profiles Comments: 0
0	ISPs: It Was All NebuAd's Fault! With Congress clearly indicating that it believed NebuAd's clickstream tracking behavioral advertising was illegal, there have been efforts underway... Source: techdirt.com Date: Feb 10, 2009 Submitted by: VentureBeat Profiles Comments: 0
0	Behavioral Advertisers Try To Come Up With Code Of Conduct Before FTC Writes One For Them While the US Congress came down hard on NebuAd for its "behavioral targeting" ad program that would be used by ISPs to track everywhere you surfed and... Source: techdirt.com Date: Jan 19, 2009 Submitted by: VentureBeat Profiles Comments: 0
0	Consortium tries to head off behavioral targeting backlash with standards Behavioral targeting has taken a lot of heat from consumers, privacy advocates, and even the government, for an industry-wide lack of transparency... Source: yieldbuild.com (Company Blog) Date: Jan 13, 2009 Submitted by: VentureBeat Profiles Comments: 0
0	Anti-Great Firewall tools offer to sell user data Hal Roberts writes, I recently stumbled into a site where three chinese circumvention tools (dynaweb, gpass, firephoenix) are now publishing aggregate... Source: boingboing.net Date: Jan 12, 2009 Submitted by: VentureBeat Profiles Comments: 0
0	Is Public Shame Enough To Keep ISPs From Doing Bad Stuff With Your Data? While there has been a lot of attention paid recently to ISPs using clickstream tracking to provide targeted ads, it seems that many people are still... Source: techdirt.com Date: Oct 15, 2008 Submitted by: VentureBeat Profiles Comments: 0
0	Most People Don't Realize Their ISPs Are Already Spying On Them We recently wrote about how you should probably be more nervous about the data your ISP is collecting rather than what Google is collecting, because... Source: techdirt.com Date: Oct 2, 2008 Submitted by: VentureBeat Profiles Comments: 0
0	UK Police Stop Phorm Investigation, As They Don't See Any Criminal Behavior While American competitor NebuAd may be on the verge of shutting down, it appears that Phorm, the controversial clickstream tracking, behavioral ad... Source: techdirt.com Date: Sep 24, 2008 Submitted by: VentureBeat Profiles Comments: 0
0	UK Says Phorm Clickstream Tracking Is Okay... If Clearly Explained To Customers With US-based clickstream tracking company NebuAd on the rocks, similar UK competitor Phorm has actually received approval from the UK government,... Source: techdirt.com Date: Sep 19, 2008 Submitted by: VentureBeat Profiles Comments: 0
0	British Firm Phorm Trudges Through the Deep Packet Storm Deep packet inspection — the secret harvesting of granular details about individual internet activity so companies can make better guesses about what... Source: wired.com Date: Sep 8, 2008 Submitted by: VentureBeat Profiles Comments: 0
2	Adify's Russ Fradin on Internet privacy Debate over data collection should be about more than opt-in versus opt-out When the U.S. Congress held its first hearings on Internet privacy in... Source: vator.tv Date: Sep 4, 2008 Submitted by: VentureBeat Profiles Comments: 0
2	Another Nail in the NebuAd Coffin: CEO Steps Down Congressional scrutiny in behavioral targeting has yet to claim any victims with regulation, but the bad publicity alone is already causing... Source: wired.com Date: Sep 3, 2008 Submitted by: VentureBeat Profiles Comments: 0
0	Bob Dykes abandons privacy invader NebuAd for books cooker Verifone [Hires] Bob Dykes, the founder and chairman at ad targeting company NebuAd, has left his position as CEO and signed up as the new CFO at Verifone. NebuAd has... Source: valleywag.com Date: Sep 3, 2008 Submitted by: VentureBeat Profiles Comments: 0
1	Ad targeting based on ISP tracking now in doubt It sounded like a winning proposition — free money — for Internet access providers. By tracking their subscribers' personal Web surfing habits, they... Source: yahoo.com Date: Sep 1, 2008 Submitted by: cls2101 Comments: 0