Another ISP Ad Snooper Hit With Lawsuit
Found on Wired on Monday, 02 March 2009
In early June of 2007, Susan Simon noticed odd things happening to her internet connection and traced the troubles to an outfit called Adzilla that turned out to be spying on everything she did online.
The purported class-action lawsuit seeks to put another spike in the heart of online marketers' dreams of total information awareness.
It just sounds too nice: collect some data, inject ads and increase your revenue. However, as long as the users did not opt-in, it's just illegal wiretapping.