Saul Hansell, Blogger, New York Times, Bits

AT&T Mulls Watching You Surf

August 15, 2008 at 12:03 am PT

AT&T is “carefully considering” monitoring the Web-surfing activities of customers who use its Internet service, the company said in a letter in response to an inquiry from the House Committee on Energy and Commerce.

While the company said it hadn’t tested such a system for monitoring display advertising viewing habits or committed to a particular technology, it expressed much more interest in the approach than the other big Internet providers who also responded to the committee’s letter.

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