They Know What You Do: Data Mining on the Internet

"TIME columnist Joel Stein learns just what data mining companies know about him. Turns out, it's a lot."

From http://www.time.com/time/printout/0,8816,2058114,00.html and http://yro.slashdot.org/story/11/03/11/200200/What-Data-Mining-Firms-Know-About-You ...
srdsays...

Know that you can arm yourself (or your browser) to a large degree against tracking:
see http://donttrack.us, an info site by google competitor duckduckgo.com (scroll to the very bottom for a list of browser plugins) and selectout.org can set optout cookies - but this depends on the tracking companies to actually respect them.

antsays...

>> ^srd:

Know that you can arm yourself (or your browser) to a large degree against tracking:
see http://donttrack.us, an info site by google competitor duckduckgo.com (scroll to the very bottom for a list of browser plugins) and selectout.org can set optout cookies - but this depends on the tracking companies to actually respect them.


http://www.networkadvertising.org/managing/opt_out.asp is another one.

Is it me or is the check all for http://selectout.org/optout/ not working?

antsays...

>> ^srd:

Indeed, seems to be broken at the moment (at least in FF4) .


It didn't work in my Mozilla's SeaMonkey v2.0.12 and old Firefox v2.0.0.20. IE6 was completely missing. Heh!

GeeSussFreeKsays...

They had something like this at SXSW this year. The main read of it was, credit cards know 2 years in advance when someone is getting divorced by their spending habits. No word on what those purchases are, though.

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