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The Internet Is Watching You

Biggest companies gather data on the average user hundreds of times a month

By Laila Weir, Newser User

Posted Mar 10, 2008 12:30 PM CDT

(Newser) – Long gone are the days of Internet anonymity. Big Web companies know all about you, says a study commissioned by the New York Times. The Internet giants track users’ behavior across sites, gathering details on a typical person several hundred times a month. That information... Read full story »

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