the takeaway for me is respect privacy and other general laws of the country you do business in
i personally believe kissmetrics had to fully know they had figured out a way to bypass privacy settings and thought themselves clever for it. Most likely they said the far too often: "It will only be a problem if we are successful and then, hey we are successful"
Can a court really penalize KISSMetrics when the government asks ISPs to track all of this information anyway? What's the difference between KISSMetrics having this info or a random ISP like Sonic.net?
There is an agreement between the user and their ISP, I for one have never made any agreement with KISSMetrics though I've used sites where they have tracked my information. Now I do make an agreement between a service like hulu when I use the site (Terms of Use) but the kicker here is (from their privacy policy):
You have choices about the collection and use of your information by third parties
But in fact because of KissMetrics shenanigans, the user did not have the choice which is probably why Hulu is in trouble. I suspect the other defendants have similar clauses that were not followed
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the takeaway for me is respect privacy and other general laws of the country you do business in
i personally believe kissmetrics had to fully know they had figured out a way to bypass privacy settings and thought themselves clever for it. Most likely they said the far too often: "It will only be a problem if we are successful and then, hey we are successful"
And all of this may be moot anyway with the government trying to track everything online anyway. http://news.cnet.com/8301-31921_3-20084939-281/house-panel-a...
Can a court really penalize KISSMetrics when the government asks ISPs to track all of this information anyway? What's the difference between KISSMetrics having this info or a random ISP like Sonic.net?
There is an agreement between the user and their ISP, I for one have never made any agreement with KISSMetrics though I've used sites where they have tracked my information. Now I do make an agreement between a service like hulu when I use the site (Terms of Use) but the kicker here is (from their privacy policy):
You have choices about the collection and use of your information by third parties
But in fact because of KissMetrics shenanigans, the user did not have the choice which is probably why Hulu is in trouble. I suspect the other defendants have similar clauses that were not followed
Fair enough. :)
I dont use KISSMetrics so I haven't read up on their ToS or PP. Makes sense though.
How about: ISPs would be compelled and empowered by the government and KISSMetrics hasn't been.